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Of all the ancients, he has acquired the greatest fame for his extensive erudition; and we may add, that he displayed the same industry in communicating, as he had done in collecting it. His works originally amounted to no less than five hundred volumes, which have all perished, except a treatise De Lingua Latina, and one De Re Rustica.
Beyond doubt Sulla posted himself on the cross road which turns off from the Via Latina, along which the Samnites advanced, at Valmontone towards Palestrina; in this case Sulla communicated with the capital by the Praenestine, and the enemy by the Latin or Labican, road. Hardly any other name can well be concealed under the corrupt reading in Liv. 89 -miam in Samnio-; comp. Strabo, v. 3, 10.
They challenged us, but let us through. "You are the last one in," this sub-director of the patrol told us. I could see him in our mirror as his gaze examined our pit a dapper, jaunty fellow with the up-tilted mustache affected in Latina. "Last one in you Inter-Allied are a nuisance." He was more particular than those directors we had passed before.
Then indeed an almost incredible blunder was committed, but not by Vitiges. The four thousand Goths whom he had left to hold the City, and at least to delay and waste the imperialists, marched out of Rome along the Flaminian Way as Belisarius entered from the south by the Via Latina. Leudaris alone refused to quit this post.
He had a great number of distinguished pupils, and was highly esteemed as a preceptor suited to those who had a poetical turn, as appears from these short lines: Cato grammaticus, Latina Siren, Qui solus legit ac facit poetas. Cato, the Latin Siren, grammar taught and verse, To form the poet skilled, and poetry rehearse.
Even Leo X, who placed his glory in the fact, 'ut lingua latina nostro pontificatu dicatur facta auctior, was inclined to a liberal and not too exclusive Latinity, which, indeed, was in harmony with his pleasure-loving nature. He was satisfied if the Latin which he had to read and to hear was lively, elegant, and idiomatic.
His absence could not be prolonged without serious consequences, and in December, 1067, he returned to England. William of Poitiers, in Migne's Patrologia Latina, cxlix, 1258, and see F. Baring, in Engl. Hist. Rev., xiii. 18 . Round, Feudal England, p. 292. With William's return to England began the long and difficult task of bringing the country completely under his control.
MORIBUS BONIS ET ARTIBUS: for the order of the words cf. n. on 1 animi tui. IN VITA: 'in everyday life' ADELPHIS: Adelphi = αδελφοι, The Brothers; this play of Terence is still extant. DIRITAS: 'harshness of temper'; but Suet. Tib. 21 has diritas morum, and Varro scena quem senem Latina vidit dirissimum.
As he began to open his eyes, the person who had just completed the bandage, said in Latin, but in a very low tone, and without raising his head, "Annon sis Ricardus ille Middlemas, ex civitate Middlemassiense? Responde in lingua Latina."
FABRICII: Bibliotheca Latina mediæ et infimæ latinitatis. Padua, 1754. Coleccion de Documentos ineditos para la historia de España, tom, xxxix. JUAN B. MUÑOZ: Historia, de nuevo mundo. 1793. L. VON RANKE: Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtsschreiber. 1824. A. DE HUMBOLDT: Examen critique de l'histoire de la géographie du nouveau continent. 1837.
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