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

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1897
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    ARDUA PER PRAECEPS—ARS ADEO LATET. “ Ardua per praeceps gloria vadit iter. Hectora quis nosset, si felix Troia fuisset ? Publica virtuti per mala facta via est.” Ovid. Tristia, IV., 3, 74. '1 Steep is the road aspiring glory treads ; Had Troy been happy, none had Hector known ; But valour’s path is hewn through public woes.” ‘ Ardua res haec est opibus non tradere mores.” Martial. Epigrams, XI., 5, 3. “ ’Tis a hard task not to surrender morality for riches.” ‘ Argentum accepi; dote imperium vendidi.” Plautus. Asinaria, Act I., Sc. I., 74.—(Demaenetus.) “ I have taken the money : I have sold my authority for a dowry.” ‘Argentum οΐχβται.” Plautus. Trinummus, Act II., Sc. IV., 17.—(Stasimus.) “ The money goes.” ‘ Argilla quidvis imitaberis uda.” Horace. Epistolae, II., 2, 8. “ Soft clay, you know, takes any form you please.”—(Conington.) * Arma impia sumpsi.” Virgil. AEneid, XII., 31. “ I have ta’en arms in an unholy cause.” “ Arma non servant modum, Nec temperari facile nec reprimi potest Stricti ensis via.” Seneca. Hercules Furens, 407.—(Lycus.) 1 ‘ Armed hands observe no limits. The drawn sword’s fury none can soothe or check.” “ Arma tenenti Omnia dat qui justa negat.” “He who refuses justice will yet arms.” Lucan. Pharsalia, I., 348. give all he asks to him who carries ‘Arma virumque cano.” Virgil. AEneid, I., 1. “ Arms I sing, and the man.” ‘ Armat spina rosas, mella tegunt apes, Crescunt difficili gaudia jurgio, Accenditque magis, quae refugit, Venus, Quod flenti tuleris, plus sapit, osculum.” Claudianus. In Nuptias Honorii, IV., 10. “Thorns arm the rose, the bees their honey hide, And lovers’ quarrels lead to keener joys ; The love that’s half refused inflames the more, Sweetest the kiss that's stol’n from weeping maid.” ‘ Ars adeo latet arte sua.” Ovid. Metamorphoses, X., 252. “ So art lies hid by its own artifice.” “ Ubicunque ars ostentatur, veritas abesse videatur.” Quintilian. De Institutione Oratoria, IX., 3, 102. “ Wherever art displays itself, there would seem to be an absence of truth.”