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Like the preceding, it is written in Saturnian verse: "Honc oino ploirume co | sentiont Romai duonoro optumo fu | ise viro viroro Luciom Scipione. | Filios Barbati consol censor aidilis | hic fuet apud vos hec cepit Corsica 'Aleri | aque urbe pugnandod, dedet Tempestatebus | aide meretod votam." Aedilis hic fuit apud vos.
Although this system of "rus in urbe" gives but a mean and poor appearance to the environs of a town, it produces much pleasure and convenience to such resident strangers as can enjoy the society of Nismes, which, by all accounts, must somewhat resemble sleeping in Exeter 'Change, the keepers, in the shape of a strong preventive force of military, on the alert, it is true, and the bars are well secured, but the beasts only watch their opportunity to tear each other to pieces.
Encyclopaedia of Antiquities, p. 64. Our readers may remember that the ancient Romans never permitted the dead to be buried within the city, a practice well worthy the imitation of its modern inhabitants. Hominem mortuum in urbe ne sepelito, neve urito, See an Interesting Inquiry on Burying in Vaults, by an esteemed Correspondent, since deceased in vol. xv. of The Mirror.
Not only were his wishes in this and all respects carried out, but the cathedral chapter erected a tablet to his memory, upon which an epitaph he would not have disdained was inscribed: Rerum Ætate Nostra Gestarum Et Novi Orbis Ignoti Hactenus Illustratori Petro Martyri Mediolanensi Cæsareo Senatori Qui, Patria Relicta Bella Granatensi Miles Interfuit Mox Urbe Capta, Primum Canonico Deinde Priori Hujus Ecclesiæ Decanus Et Capitulum Carissimo Collegae Posuere Sepulchrum Anno MDXXVI.
And now, O thou most acute of lawyers, this new twinkling spark of hope has come to thee from a source whence thou least expectedst it! Quod minime reris Graia pandetur ab urbe. And then, as soon as Herbert was gone from him, crossing one leg over the other as he sat in his easy chair, he took it from his pocket and read it for the third time.
"Non obtusa adeo gestamus pectora Poeni, Nec tam aversus equos Tyria sol jungit ab urbe."
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