Dictionary of quotations (classical) / by Thomas Benfield Harbottle.

Date:
1897
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    “ Aetas parentum, pejor avis, tnlit Nos nequiores, mox daturos Progeniem vitiosiorem.” Horace. Odes, III., 6, 46. “ Viler than grandsires, sires beget Ourselves, yet baser, soon to curse The world with baser offspring yet.”—(Conington.) “ Agamus, igitur, pingui, ut aiunt, Minerva.” Cicero. De Amicitia, V., 19. “ Let us bring to bear our plain mother wit.” “ Agedum virtus antecedat, tutum erit omne vestigium.” Seneca. De Vita Beata, XIII., 5. ‘1 If virtue precede us every step will be safe.” “Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.” Virgil. JEneid, IV., 23. ‘ ‘ E’en in these ashen embers cold I feel the spark I felt of old.”—(Conington.) “ Ah ! crudele genus, nec fidum femina nomen ! Ah ! pereat, didicit fallere si qua virum ! ” Tibullus. Elegies, III., 4, 61. “ Ah cruel race! ah faithless name of woman ! Ah, death to her who learns man to deceive. ” “ Ah miser ! etsi quis primo perjuria celat, Sera tamen tacitis Poena venit pedibus.” Tibullus. Elegies, I., 9. 3. “ Unhappy man ! though you at first conceal Your perjuries, yet punishment at last Creeps on with silent feet.” “ Ah! nimium faciles, qui tristia crimina caedis Fluminea tolli posse putatis aqua.” Ovid. Fasti, II., 45. “Too easy those who think that murder’s stain May be by river water washed away.” “ Aleator, quanto in arte melior, tanto nequior.” Publilius Syrus, 502. “ A gamester, the greater master he is in his art, the worse man he is.” —[Bacon.) “ Alia initia e fine.” Pliny the Elder. Natural History, IX., 65. “ From the end spring new beginnings.” “ Aliae nationes servitutem pati possunt; populi Romani res est propria libertas.” Cicero. Philippica, VI., 7, 19. “Other nations may be able to endure slavery; but liberty is the very birthright of the Roman people.” “ Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent.” Publilius Syrus, 9. “We desire what belongs to others, while others covet rather our possessions.”