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"I haven't had that taste in my mouth for four years," he said, returning the flask. "And you are guilty of felony!" The fisherman probably knew this, for he merely laughed. "Do you know Prince Town?" the convict asked abruptly. The other nodded, glancing in the direction of the rising moor. "And you've read the rules on the gate? Parcere subjectis, cut in the stone over the top. Good God!"
In such matters always, but chiefly when there is no contempt nor refractory disposition, but only a modest and Christian desire to conserve the peace of a pure conscience, by forbearing to do that which it is persuaded is not right. Let magistrates remember well, “Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.” Sect. 2.
Parcere subjectis was the rule of Rome as well as debellare superbos; and while all conquest is an evil, the Roman was the most clement and the least destructive of conquerors. This is true of him on the whole, though he sometimes was guilty of thoroughly primaeval cruelty. He was the great author of the laws of war as well as of the laws of peace.
After the years of civil wars which he had lived through in agony of spirit, it is not strange that such a mission seemed to him supreme. And that is why the last words of Anchises to Aeneas are: Hae tibi erunt artes: pacisque imponere morem Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.
We are not so troublesome as they; the more’s the pity. No offence to you, however, or to the emperor, or to great Rome, Cornelius. We are over our cups; it’s only a game of politics, you know, like chess or the cottabus. Maro bids you ‘parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos;’ but you have changed your manners. You coax the Goths and bully the poor African.”
What a pity it is that their worthlessness and lightness alone caused them to float! The English, who reverse every wholesome maxim, in this instance pursued their usual course. The sage advice, parcere subjectis, et debilare superbos, was disregarded. The loyalists suffered, the arrogant and turbulent triumphed. Every house, Sir, in the kingdom is infested with grievances.
Hae tibi erunt artes pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos, were shown a Japanese gentleman, he might readily accuse the Mantuan bard of plagiarizing from the literature of his own country. Benevolence to the weak, the downtrodden or the vanquished, was ever extolled as peculiarly becoming to a samurai.
Mac-Donald of Barrisdale, one of the very last Highland gentlemen who carried on the plundering system to any great extent, was a scholar and a well-bred gentleman. He engraved on his broad- swords the well-known lines Hae tibi erunt artes pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos.
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