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

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1897
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    AEDIFICARE CASAS—AESTU AT INGENS. Aedificare casas, plostello adjungere mures, Ludere par impar, equitare in arundine longa, Si quem delectet barbatum ; apientia verset.” . Horace. Satires, II., 3, 247. “ To ride a stick, to build a paper house, Play odd and even, harness mouse and mouse: If a grown man professed to find delight In things like these, you’d call him mad outright.” —(Conington.) “ Aegris Nil movisse salus rebus.” Silius Italicus. Punica, VII., 394. ‘‘ In evil case, there’s safety in inaction.’’ Aegroto, dum anima est spes esse dicitur.” Cicero. Ad Atticum, IX., 10, 3. “ As the saying is, while there is life there is hope.” “ Aequa lege necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos; Omne capax movet urna nomen.” Horace. Odes, III., 1, 14. “ Death takes the mean man with the proud ; The fatal urn has room for all.”—(Conington.) Aequo animo e vita, quum ea non placeat, tanquam e theatro, exeamus.” Cicero. De Finibus, I., 15, 49. “ If life is distasteful to us, let us leave it as calmly as though we were leaving the theatre.” Aequom est, tenere per fidem quod creditum est, Ne bene merenti sit malo benignitas.” Plautus. Cistellaria, Act IV., Sc. II., 94.—(Halisca.) “ Safe to return what once is given in trust Is just and right ; else the benevolent Suffers, who did the kindness.”—(Bonnell Thornton.) Aera nitent usu ; vestis bona quaerit haberi; Canescunt turpi tecta relicta situ.” Ovid. Amores, I., 8, 51. “ Brass shines with use ; good garments should be worn ; Deserted houses soon in ruins fall. ” Aesopi ingenio statuam posuere Attici, Servumque collocarunt aeterna in basi, Patere honoris scirent ut cunctis viam, Nec generi tribui, sed virtuti, gloriam.” Phaedrus. Fables, II., Epilogue, 1. “ The Athenians raised a statue to the genius of .dSsop, and placed the slave on an imperishable pedestal, to show that the path of honour is open to all, and that glory is the attribute of worth and not of lineage.” “ Aestuat ingens Imo in corde pudor mixtoque insania luctu Et furiis agitatus amor et conscia virtus.” Virgil. JEneid, XII., 666. ‘ ‘ Fierce boils in every vein Indignant shame and passion blind, The tempest of the lover’s mind, The soldier’s high disdain. —(Conington.)