1108. Deus dat incrementum. (L.)-God gives the increase. Tonbridge Grammar School and Fruiterers' Company. 1109. Deus hæc fortasse benigna Reducet in sedem vice. (L.) Hor. Epod. 13, 7.-God will, perhaps, by some gracious change, restore matters to their former state.

1110. Deus major columna. (L.)-God is the greater support. Motto of Lord Henniker.

1111. Deus mihi providebit. (L.)—God will provide for me. Motto of Lord Keane.

1112. Deus nobis hæc otia fecit. (L.) Virg. E. 1, 6.-This peaceful life (home) came from the hand of God.

1113. Deus vult. (L.)-God wills it.

The Council of Clermont, 1095, held under Urban II. for considering the project of a crusade against the Turks, broke up amid unanimous shouts of Deus vult (It is God's will), and the words became eventually the battle-cry of the First Crusade.

1114. Deux etions et n'avions qu'un cœur. (Fr.) Villon, Rondeaux. We were two and had but one heart between us. Said of a perfectly mutual friendship or love.

1115. De votre esprit la force est si puissante

Que vous pourriez vous passer de beauté :
De vos attraits la grâce est si piquante
Que sans esprit vous auriez enchanté.

Impromptu of Voltaire.

The sparkle of your wit is such

You'd charm, were beauty wanting:
Your looks and air attract so much

That dumb, you're still enchanting.-Ed.

(Fr.)

1116. Dextro tempore. (L.) Hor. S. 2, 1, 18.-At a lucky

moment.

1117. Di bene fecerunt, inopis me quodque pusilli

Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (L.) Hor. S. 1, 4, 17.-The Gods did well who made me of a poor and feckless spirit that speaks but seldom and little.

Thank heaven that formed me of unfertile mind

My speech not copious, and my thoughts confined. - Conington, 1118. Dicam insigne recens adhuc Indictum ore alio.

(L.) Hor. C. 3, 25, 7.

Sweet and strange shall be my lays,
A tale till now by poet's voice unsung.-Conington.

1119. Dicebam, Medicare tuos desiste capillos:

Tingere quam possis jam tibi nulla coma est.

(L.) Ov. Am. 1, 14, 1.

Cease doctoring your hair, I used to cry:

But now you have no longer hair to dye.-Ed.

1120. Dicenda tacendaque calles. (L.) Pers. 4, 5.-You know when to speak and when to be silent. Cf. Dicenda tacenda locutus. Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 72.-Saying whatever came into his head,-lit., things to be mentioned as well as what should be suppressed. Conversation of a man when the wine has got into his head.

1121. Dicere quod puduit, scribere jussit amor.

(L.) Ov. Heroid. 4, 10.

What shame forbade me speak, Love bade me write.-Ed.

1122. Dic, hospes, Spartæ nos te hic vidisse jacentes Dum sanctis patriæ legibus obsequimur.

(L.) Simonid. Epigr. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 42, 101. Thermopyla.

Stranger! to Sparta say that here we fell,

Obedient to the land we loved so well!-Ed.

1123. Dicite lö Pæan, et Iö bis dicite Pæan; Decidit in casses præda petita meos.

(L.) Ov. Art. Am. 2, 1.

Hurrah! Hurrah! and give one cheer more yet!

The game I chased has fallen into my net.-Ed.

1124. Dic mihi, an boni quid usquam est, quod quisquam uti posset Sine malo omni: aut, ne laborem capias, quum illo uti velles (L.) Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 34.-Tell me, is there a a single blessing that a man can enjoy free from all evil, or that he must not take great pains to obtain?

1125. Dico unum ridiculum dictum de dictis melioribus,

Nemo ridet. (L.) Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 22 and 24.—I repeat a witty saying from among the best bonmots, and no one laughs.

1126. Dicta fides sequitur. (L.) Ov. M. 3, 527.-The words are straight fulfilled. The promise is immediately fulfilled. Cf. Res dicta secuta est. Id. ibid. 4, 550.The deed forthwith followed the word. Instant accomplishment.

1127. Dicta tibi est lex. (L.) Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 18.-You know

the conditions.

1128. Dictum ac factum, or dictum factum. (L.) Ter. And. 2, 3, 7.-No sooner said than done. (In Greek, äμa ëños apa epyov, word and deed at once.)

1129. Dictum sapienti sat est. (L.) Plaut. Pers. 4, 7, 19.-A word to the wise is enough. Verbum sapienti (or Verbum sap.) has the same meaning.

1130. Die Augen glauben sich selbst, die Ohren andern Leuten. (G.) Prov.-The eyes believe themselves, the ears other persons.

Cf.

1131. Die Erinnerung ist das einzige Paradies aus dem wir nicht vertrieben werden können. (G.) Jean Paul?— Memory is the only Paradise from which no one can drive us. Die Probe eines Genusses ist seine Erinnerung, id.-The test of our enjoyment is its recollection.

1132. Die ersten Entschliessungen sind nicht immer die klügsten, aber gewöhnlich die redlichsten. (G.) Lessing ?-First resolutions are not always the wisest, but generally the most honest.

1133. Die Fische haben gut leben, die trinken wann sie wollen. (G.) Prov.-The fishes have a pleasant life, they drink when they please.

1134. Die Freuden, die man übertreibt

Verwandeln sich in Schmerzen. (G.) Bertuch, Das
Lämmchen. The pleasures in which men indulge too
freely, become pains.

1135. Die Gabe zu beten ist nicht immer in unserer Gewalt.
Dem Himmel ist beten wollen auch beten. (G.) Lessing?
The gift of prayer is not always in our power, in
Heaven's sight the wish to pray is prayer.

1136. Die Gegenwart ist eine mächt'ge Göttin. (G.) Goethe, Tasso.-The Present is a mighty goddess.

1137. Die Geister platzen auf einander.

(G.)

Luther?-The

Spirits explode against each other. Angry recriminations between literary opponents.

1138. Die Irrthümer des Menschen machen ihn eigentlich liebenswürdig. (G.)-A man's faults make him really lovable.

1139. Die Krankheit des Gemüthes löset sich

In Klagen und Vertrau'n am leicht'sten auf. (G.) Goethe, Tasso.-Morbidity of mind finds vent most easily in com plaints and confidences.

1140. Die Kunst darf nie ein Kunststück werden.

should never degenerate into artifice.

(G.)-Art

1141. Die Leidenschaften sind Mängel oder Tugenden, nur gesteigerte. (G.) Goethe, Sprüche.-The Passions are Vices or Virtues only in an exaggerated form.

1142. Die Liebe ist der Liebe Preis. (G.) Schill. Don Carlos, 2, 8 (Princess Eboli loq.).-Love is the reward of love. 1143. Diem perdidi. (L.) Suet. Tit. 8.-I have lost a day Reflection of the Emperor Titus, if on finding at night that he had done no good action during the preceding day.

Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand no noble action done.

Staniford's Art of Reading, 3d ed. p. 27, Boston 1803. 1144. Die Natur hat jederzeit Recht, und das gerade da am gründlichsten, wo wir sie am wenigsten begreifen.

(G.) Goethe, Sprüche.-Nature is always right, and particu larly, most emphatically there where we least understand her. 1145. Die Natur ist das einzige Buch, das auf allen Blättern grossen Inhalt bietet. (G.) Goethe, Sprüche.-Nature is the only book that presents weighty matter on every page. 1146. Die Natur kann nicht anders, als ewig recht handeln; unbekümmert was daraus erfolgen möge. (G.) Goethe, Sprüche. Nature cannot do other than always act aright, unconcerned what may be the result.

1147. Die Natur weiss allein, was sie will. (G.) Goethe, Sprüche.-Nature alone knows what she means.

1148. Die Regierung muss der Bewegung stets einen Schritt voraus sein. (G.) The Government must always be a step in advance of public opinion. Count ArnimBoytzenburg, speech on the address to the Throne, April 2, 1848.

1149. Dies adimit ægritudinem. (L.) Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 13.Time effaces grief.

1150. Dies datus. (L.) Law Term.-A given day, appointed for appearance before the Court to put in an answer. (2.) Dies dominicus non est juridicus.-Sunday is not a day for legal proceedings. Hence the term dies non (sub. dominicus), a no-day or bye-day, when courts, banks, and public offices are closed, and no business can be transacted. (3.) Dies faustus (infaustus).-A lucky (unlucky) day.

1151. Die Seligkeit nicht selbst, nur ihrer werth zu sein, Das ist die Blüthe dieses Thales.

(G.) Tiedge?

Not blessedness itself, but to be worthy of it,
That is the blossom of this earthly vale.-Ed.

1152. Dies iræ, dies illa Sæclum solvet in favilla
Teste David cum Sibylla, etc.

?Thomas de Celano, 13th century.

Day of wrath! O Day of mourning!

See fulfilled the prophet's warning,

Heaven and earth in ashes burning! etc.-Dr Irons.

The opening lines of the Prose sung in the Mass for the
Dead, also used in the Commemoration of the Faithful
Departed on All Souls Day.

1153. Dies regnis illa suprema fuit. (L.)
was the last day of that royal line.
of the kings from Latium.

Ov. F. 2, 852.—That
Said of the expulsion

1154. Die Stätte, die ein guter Mensch betrat,

Ist eingeweiht; nach hundert Jahren klingt
Sein Wort und seine That dem Enkel wieder.

(G.) Goethe, Tasso, 1, 1.

The places trodden by a good man's foot

Are hallowed ground: after a hundred years

His words and deeds come back to his posterity.-Ed.

1155. Dieu avec nous. (Fr.)-God with us. Motto of Earl of Berkeley and Lord Fitz Hardinge.

1156. Dieu ayde. (Fr.)-God assist. Motto of Viscount Mountmorres and Viscount Frankfort.

1157. Dieu défend le droit. (Fr.)-God defends the right. Motto of Earl Spencer and Lord Churchill.

1158. Dieu est le poëte, les hommes ne sont que les acteurs.

Ces

grand pièces qui si jouent sur la terre ont été composées dans le ciel. (Fr.) J. Balzac, Socrate Chrétien.—God is the poet, men are only the actors; the great dramas which are played on earth have been composed in heaven. 1159. Dieu et mon droit. (Fr.)—God and my right. Motto of the Sovereigns of Great Britain.

The Motto was assumed by Coeur-de-Lion, with reference to his French conquests, and seems to have been revived in the same connection by Edward III., and continued in use until Elizabeth. Since Queen Anne, who adopted Elizabeth's motto (Semper eadem, q.v.), the words have been the uniform motto of the Kings of England.