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Justinian authorized Tribonian, then quaestor, "vir magnificus magisteria dignitate inter agentes decoratus," for great titles were now given to the officers of the crown, to prepare, with the assistance of seventeen associates, a collection of extracts from the writings of the most eminent jurists, so as to form a body of law for the government of the empire, with power to select and omit and alter; and this immense work was done in three years, and published under the title of Digest or Pandects.
Now and then, when the stars send them too cruel a message, they manage to brace themselves up, act for themselves, and say boldly: 'Vir sapiens dominabitus lustris', the wise man is master of the stars and then again relapse into the old delusion.
It becomes rhetoricians to adorn and disguise and make the best of things; but Metellus, /sanctus vir/, a holy and blameless man, grave and sincere to wit, and addressing the Roman people in the solemn capacity of Censor, was bound to speak the plain truth, especially as he was treating of a subject on which the observation of every day, and the experience of every life, could not leave the least doubt upon the mind of his audience. Still, Riccabocca, having decided to marry, has no doubt prepared himself to bear all the concomitant evils as becomes a professed sage; and I own I admire the art with which Pisistratus has drawn the kind of woman most likely to suit a philosopher "
Charles Fox used to apply to Burke a passage that Quintilian wrote about Ovid. 'Si animi sui affectibus temperare quam indulgere maluisset, quoted Fox, 'quid vir iste præstare non potuerit! But this is really not at all certain either of Ovid, or Burke, or any one else.
The principal feature of the place is a couple of very ancient towers, brownish-yellow in hue, and mantled in scarlet Vir- ginia-creeper. One of these towers, reputed to be of Saracenic origin, is isolated, and is only the more effective; the other is incorporated in the house, which is delightfully fragmentary and irregular.
The comment on Canto XIX. of the "Inferno" affords several instances of this unfair procedure. "Among the Cardinals," says Benvenuto, "was Benedict of Anagni, a man most skilful in managing great affairs and in the rule of the world; who, moreover, sought the highest dignity." "Vir astutissimus ad quseque magna negotia et imperia mundi; qui etiam affectabat summam dignitatem."
To prevent all Mistakes that may happen among Gentlemen of the other End of the Town, who come but once a Week to St. No. 25. Thursday, March 29, 1711. Addison. ... AEgrescitque medendo. Vir. The following Letter will explain it self, and needs no Apology.
Please do not mention my name in connection with this transaction; but, if any questions are asked, merely say that you have obtained a city market for them. Webb's Gap. Vir. November 24, 1912. Dear Dr. McDonald: How many letters do you guess I have written to you so far this month? 24.
The whole of this is in imitation of his two favorite authors, Sallust, who occasionally wrote in hexametrical measure as, "ex vir/tute fu/it mul/ta et prae/clara re/i mili/taris." Jug. V.; and Livy, who, if Sallust sometimes exceeded the number of feet, sometimes fell short of them, as in the opening words of the Preface to his History: "factu rusne oper/ae preti/um sim."
7 We have preserved in full force another possession of goods, which is called unde vir et uxor, and which occupied the ninth place in the old classification, and have given it a higher place, namely, the sixth.
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