859. Cras amet, qui nunquam amavit,

Quique amavit, cras amet. (L.) ? Pervigilium Veneris. Let those love now who never loved before,

Let those who always loved, now love the more.-T. Parnell, 1717. 860. Cras hoc fiet? Idem cras fiet. Quid? quasi magnum Nempe diem donas? sed quum lux altera venit,

Jam cras hesternum consumpsimus; esse aliud cras
Egerit hos annos, et semper paulum erit ultra.

(L.) Pers. 5, 66.

To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow.
It shall be done to-morrow. But, I say,
You'll sing to-morrow what you sing to-day.
What, is one day of such vast consequence
That you present it as a boon immense?
No! but reflect, when next day's sun has shone,
Then yesterday's "to-morrow" will have gone ;
And you're kept idling by one morrow more,
No nearer action than you were before. -Ed.
861. Cras te victurum, cras dicis, Postume, semper.
Dic mihi cras istud, Postume, quando venit?

(L.) Mart. 5, 58, 1.

To-morrow, you always say, I'll wisely live:
Say, Posthumus, when does that day arrive?-Ed.

862. Credat Judæus Apella

Non ego: namque deos didici securum agere œvum;
Nec, si quid miri faciat natura, deos id

Tristes ex alto cœli demittere tecto.

The miraculous liquefaction.

(L.) Hor. S. 1, 5, 100.

Tell the crazed Jews such miracles as these!

I hold the gods live lives of careless ease,

And, if a wonder happens, don't assume

'Tis sent in anger from the upstairs room.-Conington.

Credat Judaus Apella is often used in a more or less contemptuous way, meaning that the thing is too absurd and improbable to obtain credence, like our "Tell that to the marines!"

863. Credebant hoc grande nefas, et morte piandum

Si juvenis vetulo non assurrexerat.

Old fashioned manners.

"Twas thought a grave, a capital offence,
For youth not to rise up in age's presence.-Ed.

(L.) Juv. 13, 34.

864. Crede Byron. (L.)-Believe, or trust Byron. Motto of

Lord Byron.

865. Crede mihi bene qui latuit bene vixit, et intra

Fortunam debet quisque manere suam.

(L.) Ov. T. 3, 4, 25.

Seclusion.

He lives the best who from the world retires

And, self-contained, to nothing else aspires.--Ed.

866. Crede mihi, miseros prudentia prima relinquit. (L.) Ov. Ep. 4, 12, 47.-Prudence, believe me, is the first to leave the unfortunate.

867. Crede mihi, res est ingeniosa dare. (L.) Ov. Am. 1, 8, 62.-Believe me, giving is a matter that requires tact.

868. Crede quod est quod vis; ac desine tuta vereri ;

Deque fide certa sit tibi certa fides. (L.) Ov. T. 4, 3, 13 Think it is as you wish throw fears away,

And have no doubt on my fidelity.-Ed.

869. Credite me vobis folium recitare Sibyllæ. (L.) Juv. 8, 126.-Believe I'm quoting you the Sibylls' leaves. It is Gospel truth.

leaves.

870. Credite, posteri!

The Sibyll wrote her oracles on palm

Believe it, after years!-Conington.

(L.) Hor. C. 2, 19, 2.

Is it possible that our descendants will credit such things?

871. Creditur ex medio quia res arcessit habere

Sudoris minimum; sed habet comœdia tanto
Plus oneris, quanto veniæ minus.

The comic dramatist.

(L.) Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 168.

'Tis thought that Comedy, because its source
Is common life, must be a thing of course;
Whereas there's nought so difficult, because

There's nowhere less allowance made for flaws.-Conington.

872. Credo pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam

In terris visamque diu.

Chastity.

That thing called Chastity, in Saturn's reign,
Did, I believe, her parting steps detain,

And for a while was seen on mortal earth

(L.) Juv. 6, 1.

E'er she resought the realms that gave her birth.-Ed.

873. Credula res amor est. (L.) Ov. M. 7, 826.-Love is a credulous thing. Love will believe anything.

874. Credula si fueris, aliæ tua gaudia carpent,

Et lepus hic aliis exagitandus erit. (L.) Ov. A. A. 3, 661.-If you are too ready to believe, others will reap the pleasures that should be yours, and you will be hunting the hare for the benefit of others.

Prov. of doing anything for another's advantage. Cf. Diocl. ap. Vopisc. Numer. 15: Ego semper apros occido, sed alter semper utitur pulpamento.-I do all the shooting of the boars, but another always gets the game. I shake the bush, but another

catches the bird.

875. Credula vitam Spes fovet, et fore cras semper ait melius. (L.) Tib. 2, 6, 19.

Hope.

Hope fondly cheers our days of aching sorrow,
And always promises a brighter morrow. -Ed.

876. Credule, quid frustra simulacra fugacia captas?

Quod petis, est nusquam : quod amas, avertere, perdes.
Ista repercussæ quam cernis imaginis umbra est,

Nil habet ista sui.

Narcissus.

(L.) Ov. M. 3, 432.

Why vainly catch, fond youth, at fleeting forms?
You're seeking what is not avert your view,
And what you yearn for, will have vanished too.
What you behold's a mere reflection thrown,
A shadow, with no substance of its own.-Ed.
877. Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam
Majorumque fames.

Greed.

(L.) Hor. C. 3, 16, 17.

Cares follow on with growth of store,
And an insatiate thirst for more.-Ed.

Cf. Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit
Et minus hanc optat, qui non habet.

The love of money is with wealth increased,
And he that has it not, desires it least.-Ed.
And

Creverunt et opes, et opum furiata cupido:
Et quum possideant plurima, plura volunt.

Juv. 14, 139.

Ov. F. 1, 211.

Wealth has increased, and wealth's fierce maddening lust, And though men have too much, have more they must.-Ed. And

Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum. Ov. M. 1, 140.-Men dig the earth for gold, seed of unnumbered ills. Cf. Radix enim malorum omnium cupiditas. Vulg. Tim. 1, 6, 10.The love of money is the root of all evil.

878. Crescit occulto velut arbor ævo. (L.) Hor. C. 1, 12, 45. -It grows as trees do with unnoticed growth.

A line

applied by St Beuve (?) to the progress of the Catholic

Church.

879. Cressa ne careat pulcra dies nota. (L.) Hor. C. 1, 36, 10.

Note we in our calendar

This festal day with whitest mark from Crete.-Conington.

880. Creta an carbone notandi. (L.) Hor. S. 2, 3, 246.Are they to be marked with chalk or charcoal? Are their characters black or white? Were they happy days,

or no?

881. Cretizandum est cum Crete. (L.) Prov.-We must do at Crete as the Cretans do.

882. Crimen læsæ majestatis. (L.)-Crime of high-treason. 883. Crimina qui cernunt aliorum, non sua cernunt,

Hi sapiunt aliis, desipiuntque sibi. (L.)?—Those who see the faults of others, and are blind to their own, are wise as regards others, fools as regards themselves. 884. Croire tout découvert est une erreur profonde, C'est prendre l'horizon pour les bornes du monde. (Fr.) Lemierre, Utilité des découvertes.

To think all discovered's an error profound;

'Tis to take the horizon for earth's mighty bound.-Ed.

885. Crom-a-boo. (Irish.)-Crom for ever.

Leinster.

Motto of Duke of

886. Croyez moi, la prière est un cri d'espérance. (Fr.) A. de Musset, L'Espoir en Dieu.-Believe me, prayer is a cry of hope.

887. Crudelem medicum intemperans æger facit. (L.) Pub. Syr. An unreasonable patient makes a harsh doctor. 888. Crudelis mater magis, an puer improbus ille?

Improbus ille puer: crudelis tu quoque mater. (L.) Virg. E. 8, 49.-Was the mother cruel, or was it rather the son who was so bad? The son was bad, and thou, O mother, cruel also.

889. Crudelis ubique

Luctus, ubique Pavor, et plurima mortis imago.

Dire agonies, wild terrors swarm,

(L.) Virg. A. 2. 368.

And Death glares grim in many a form.—Conington.

890. Crux. (L.) A cross. A difficulty (puzzle, dilemma, problem) that perplexes and baffles and seems insurmountable.

891. Crux stat dum volvitur orbis. (L.)?—The Cross stands

erect while the world revolves.

892. Cucullus non facit monachum. (L.) Prov.-The cowl does

not make the monk.

The dress appropriate to any profession does not necessarily make the wearer a member of the body he appears to represent. The saying means that dress costume, is nothing compared with actual qualifications. You may get yourself up in the most unexceptionable nautical attire, and yet know no more how to handle a vessel than a London 'bus conductor.

893. Cui bono? (L.)-What good is it? Cf. Cic. Rosc. Com. 30: Cui bono fuisset-What good would it be?

A

question constantly propounded in lawsuits by L. Cassius, the judge. (2.) Cui malo? What harm?

894. Cuicunque aliquis quid concedit, concedere videtur et id, sine quo res ipsa esse non potest. (L.) Law Max.Whoever grants a thing is supposed also tacitly to grant that without which the grant itself would be of no effect.

A person selling the timber on his estate, the buyer may cut down the trees, and convey them away without being responsible for the injury which the grass may sustain from carts, etc., during the necessary time of conveyance.

895. Cui dolet, meminit. (L.) Prov. Cic. Mur. 20, 42.-He who suffers, remembers. A burnt child, etc.

896. Cui lecta potenter erit res

Nec facundia deseret hunc nec lucidus ordo.

(L.) Hor. A. P. 40.

Let but our theme be equal to our powers, Choice language, clear arrangement, both are ours.-Conington. 897. Cuilibet in arte sua perito est credendum.

(L.) Law Max.-Every man should be given credence on points connected with his own special profession.

Thus, questions relating to any particular trade must be decided by a jury after examination of witnesses skilled in that particular profession. Surgeons on a point of surgery, pilots on a question of navigation, and so on.

898. Cui licet quod majus, non debet quod minus est non licere. (L.) Law Max.-He who has authority to do the greater, ought not to be debarred from doing the less. A man under a power to lease for twenty-one years, may lease for fourteen, since omne majus continet in re minus, the greater contains the less.

899. Cui licitus est finis, etiam licent media. (L.) Busenbaum, Medulla Theol. Moralis, 6, 6, 2.—Where the end is lawful the means thereto are lawful also. This maxim of the Jesuit writer is generally cited as "The end justifies the means."