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

Date:
1897
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    “ Cedimus, an subitum luctando accendimus ignem ? Cedamus. Leve iit, quod bene fertur, onus. Yidi ego jactatas mota face crescere flammas, Et vidi nullo concutiente mori.” Ovid. Amores, I, 2, 9. “ By fighting ’gainst desire we but allume The sudden spark of love. Best yield ; for thus The burden of our passion lighter grows. The brandished torch burns with a fiercer flame ; But cease to brandish it, the fire dies.” “ Cedunt Grammatici, vincuntur Rhetores, omnis Turba tacet, nec causidicus, nec praeco loquatur, Altera nec mulier : verborum tanta cadit vis.” Juvenal. Satires, VI., 438. “ Grammarians yield, Loud rhetoricians, baffled, quit the field ; Even auctioneers and lawyers stand aghast, And not a woman speaks !—So thick and fast The wordy shower descends.”—[Gifford.) “ Censen’ te posse reperire ullam mulierem, Quae careat culpa ? an quia non delinquunt viri ? ” Terence. Hecyra, Act IV., Sc. IV., 40.—[Laches.) ‘ ‘ Do you think To find a woman without any fault ? Or is’t because the men are ne’er to blame ? ”—[George Colman.) “ Centum doctum hominum consilia sola haec devincit Dea Fortuna. Atque hoc verum est: proinde ut quisque fortuna utitur. Ita praecellet, atque exinde sapere eum omnes dicimus.” Plautus. Pseudolus, Act II., Sc. III., 12.—[Pseudolus.) “The goddess Fortune Frustrates the counsels of a hundred wise heads. And ’tis but truth—the man who knows to use His fortune, he surpasses all: by all Is therefore called a man of understanding.”—[Bonnell Thornton.) “ Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper.” Horace. De Arte Poetica, 163. “ Pliant as wax to those who lead him wrong, But all impatience with a faithful tongue.”—[Conington.) “ Certa amittimus, dum incerta petimus.” Plautus. Pseudolus, Act II, Sc. III., 19.—[Pseudolus.) “ We lose a certainty and grasp a shadow.”—[Bonnell Thornton.) “ Certa res ’st Me usque quaerere illam, quoquo hinc abducta est gentium; Neque mihi ulla obsistet amnis, neque mons, neque adeo mare ; Nec calor, nec frigus metuo, neque ventum neque grandinem; Imbrem perpetiar ; laborem subferam, solem, sitim. Non concedam, neque quiescam usquam noctu neque interdius Prius profecto quam aut amicam aut mortem investigavero.” Plautus. Mercator, Act V, Sc. II., 16.—[Eutychus.) “ I’m resolved To seek her over all the world. No river, Mountain, or sea shall bar my way. I fear Nor heat, nor cold, nor wind, nor hail. Let rain Descend in torrents and the scorching sun Parch me with thirst, I will endure it all. No rest, no respite night or day I’ll take, Till I have lost my life, or found my love.”—[Bonnell Thornton.)