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

Date:
1897
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    “ Consulque non unius anni Sed quotiens bonus atque fidus Judex honestum praetulit utili et Rejecit alto dona nocentium Vultu.” Horace. Odes, IV., 9, 39. “ A consul not of one brief year, But oft as on the judgment seat You bend the expedient to the right, Turn haughty eyes from bribes away.”—(Conington.) “ Contemnuntur ii, qui nec sibi nec alteri, ut dicitur ; in quibus nullus labor, nulla industria, nulla cura est.” Cicero. De Officiis, II., 10, 36. “We despise those who, as the saying goes, are no good either to them- selves or to any one else ; who are neither laborious, nor industrious,, nor careful.” “ Contemptu famae contemni virtutes.” Tacitus. Annals, IV., 88. “ To despise fame is to despise merit.”—(Church and Brodribb.) “ Conticuere omnes, intentique ora tenebant. Inde toro pater Aeneas sic orsus ab alto : Infandum, Regina, jubes renovare dolorem, Trojanas ut opes et lamentabile regnum Eruerint Danai; quaeque ipse miserrima vidi, Et quorum pars magna fui. Quis talia fando Myrmidonum Dolopumve aut duri miles Ulixi Temperet a lacrimis ? ” Virgil. JEneid, II., 1.. “ Each eye was fixed, each lip compressed, When thus began the heroic guest: ‘ Too cruel, lady, is the pain You bid me thus revive again ; How lofty Ilium’s throne august Was laid by Greece in piteous dust, The woes I saw with these sad eyne, The deeds whereof large part was mine What Argive, when the tale were told, What Myrmidon of sternest mould, What foe from Ithaca could hear, And grudge the tribute of a tear ? ’ ”—(Conington.) ‘ Contra potentes nemo est munitus satis ; Si vero accessit consiliator maleficus, Vis et nequitia quidquid oppugnant, ruit.” Phaedrus. Fables, II., 6, 1., “ Against the mighty none are fully armed ; Join but with them an evil counsellor, Opposed to might and malice nought can stand.” “ Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis : Sermo datur cunctis, animi sapientia paucis.” Dionysius Cato. Disticha de Moribus, /., 10. “ Against a chatterer wage no wordy war ; To all is viven speech, wisdom to few.”