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9, 23.-You began better than you end: your later achievements must yield the palm to those before: how little does the man correspond to the promise of the child. Deianira reproaching Hercules.

754. Cœur content soupire souvent. (Fr.) Prov.-A satisfied heart will often sigh. The cross proverb says: Cœur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. -The heart that sighs has not got what it desires.

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755. Cogenda mens est ut incipiat. (L.) Sen. -The mind must be compelled to make a beginning.

756. Cogitato mus pusillus quam sit sapiens bestia

(L.)

Etatem qui uni cubili nunquam committit suam.
Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 15.-Consider what a clever animal
the little mouse is, that never trusts its life to one hole
only. Chaucer, Wif of Bath (Prol. 572), has:

I hold a mouse 's hert not worth a leek

That hath but oon hole to sterte to.

757. Cogito, ergo sum. (L.) I think, therefore I exist. Descartes' first principle. Thought, or rather self-consciousness, is man's only ground for the truth of anything, even of his own existence.

758. Cognovit. (L.) Law Term.-He has admitted. Term signifying that a defendant admits that the plaintiff's action is just (cognovit actionem), and suffers judgment to be entered against him without trial.

759. Colubrum in sinu fovere. (L.) Phædr. ?—To cherish a serpent in your bosom. To harbour, or, to admit into your confidence, a false friend.

760. Combien de héros, glorieux, magnanimes, ont vécu trop d'un jour! (Fr.) J. B. Rousseau? How many illustrious and noble heroes have lived too long by one day! Their reputation would have been absolutely without blemish, had their lives been cut off at some earlier date.

761. Comédiens c'est un mauvais temps

La Tragédie est par les champs. (Fr.) Song of '93.Comedians! what a wretched time with Tragedy abroad! Cf. Que parles-tu, Vallier, de faire des tragédies? La Tragédie court les rues! Ducis? What do you mean by writing tragedies, when Tragedy herself is stalking the streets?

762. Comes jucundus in viâ pro vehiculo est. (L.) Pub. Syr. Frag. An agreeable companion on a journey is as good

as a coach. He will beguile the time. Text of Spectator 122, Sir Roger riding to the County Assizes.

763. Comitas morum. (L.) Cic. Am. 1-Courteous manners. Cf. Suavissimi mores. Id. Att. 16, 16, a, 6.-Most charming manners.

764. Comitas inter gentes. (L.)—Civility between nations. 765. Comme il faut. (Fr.)—As it ought to be,―i.e., properly, well done. Such a thing is done comme il faut. This expression is also used to imply persons of respectability, as, des gens comme il faut, gentlefolks.

766. Comme je fus. (Fr.)-As I was. Motto of Earl of Dudley and Ward.

767. Comme je trouve. (Fr.)-As I find it. Motto of Marquess of Ormonde.

768. Commune bonum. (L.)-The common good. A thing of public advantage or benefit.

769. Commune id vitium est: hic vivimus ambitiosa

Paupertate omnes. Quid te moror?

Cum pretio.

It is, I fear, an universal vice;

Omnia Romæ (L.) Juv. 3, 182.

Here we're all struggling hard, as poor as mice,
To outdo one another. In a word,

Money at Rome is king and sovereign lord.-Ed.
770. Commune naufragium omnibus est consolatio.

(L.)——A

general shipwreck is a consolation to all. A general calamity, in which an entire neighbourhood, or a whole nation is involved, is always borne with more firmness of mind, and supported with greater resignation.

771. Commune periculum concordiam parit. (L.)-A common danger produces concord.

772. Commune quod est, ne tuum solum dicas. (L.) That which is common property you may not call your own.

773. Communia esse amicorum inter se omnia. (L.) Prov. Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 18.-All things are common property amongst friends.

774. Communibus annis. (L.)-On an average of years. One year with another.

775. Communi fit vitio naturæ, ut invisis, latitantibus atque incognitis rebus magis confidamus, vehementiusque exterreamur. (L.) Cæs. B. C. 2, 14.-It is a common fault of our nature to give greater credence to those things

which are unseen, concealed, and unknown, and to be more violently alarmed by them.

776. Communitates Burgi de Dorchestria. (L.)-The Corporation of the Burgh of Dorchester.

777. Comparaison n'est pas raison. (Fr.)-Comparison is no

reason.

778. Compedes, quas ipse fecit, ipsus ut gestet faber. (L.) Aus. Id. 6 fin. The smith must wear the fetters he himself has made. As you have made your bed, so must you lie. Cf. Tute hoc intristi; tibi omne est exedendum. Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 4.-You have made this dish, and you must eat it up. You began the affair and you must go through with it.

779. Compendiaria res improbitas, virtusque tarda. (L.)?-Dishonesty chooses the most expeditious route, virtue the more circuitous one.

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780. Complectamur illam et amemus: plena est voluptatis si illâ scias uti. . . jucundissima est ætas devexa, non tamen præceps et illam quoque in extrema regulâ stantem, judico habere suas voluptates, aut hoc ipsum succedit in locum voluptatum, nullis egere. (L.) Sen. Ep. 12.As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure, if you know how to use it. The gradually (I do not say rapidly) declining years are amongst the sweetest in a man's life; and, I maintain, that even where they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasures still; or else, this takes the place of pleasures, to need them

no more.

781. Componitur orbis

Regis ad exemplum; nec sic inflectere sensus
Humanos edicta valent, quam vita regentis.

(L.) Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 299.

A Prince's Example.

The great world moulds its manners on the king's
Example: nor can wisest laws constrain

His people half so much, as the king's life.-Ed.

782. Compositum jus fasque animo, sanctosque recessus Mentis, et incoctum generoso pectus honesto. (L.) Pers. 2, 73.-Regulated principles of justice and duty in the mind: pure thoughts within; and a breast filled with an instinctive sense of honour. (Compositum jus fasque animi. Motto of Lord Ellenborough.)

783. Compositum miraculi causa. (L.) Tac. A. 11, 27.—A story got up to create astonishment.

784. Compos mentis. (Law L.)-In the possession of his faculties.

Compos or non compos are used to denote the saneness, or not, of
any one. Tu mentis es compos? Tu non constringendus?
Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 97.-Are you then in your right mind?
you not a person to be kept under restraint?

785. Con amore. (It.)-With love. Enthusiastically.

Are

786. Concessa pudet ire via, civemque videri. (L.) Luc. 2, 446. He is ashamed to advance by the public way, and to appear in the character of an honest man. Said of Julius Cæsar.

787. Concordans. (L.)—Agreeing together. Motto of the Order of Concord, Brandenburg.

788. Concordia discors. (L.) Luc. 1, 98.-Discordant harmony. Ill-assorted union or combination of persons or things: agreeable discords in music.

789. Concordia, integritate, industria. (L.)-By concord, integrity, and industry. Motto of Lord Rothschild.

790. Concordia parvæ res crescunt, discordia maxumæ dilabuntur. (L.) Sall. Jug. 10, 16.-If harmony be preserved, small undertakings will prosper; but dissension will bring the greatest states to the ground. (The first four words are the Motto of Merchant Tailors' Company.)

791. Concurritur: horæ

Momento cita mors venit, aut victoria læta.

(L.) Hor. S. 1, 1, 7.

One short, sharp shock, and presto! all is done :
Death in an instant comes, or victory's won.-Conington.

792. Condicio dulcis sine pulvere palma. (L.) Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 5 v.—The certainty of winning the coveted palm without an effort.

793. Condo et compono quæ mox depromere possim. (L.) Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 12.—I am storing and collecting what some day or other I shall be able to produce.

794. Con el Rey y con la Inquisicion, chitos! (S) Prov.About the King and the Inquisition, not a word!

795. Confido, conquiesco. (L.)—I trust and rest. Earl of Dysart and Lord Tollemache.

Motto of

796. Confiteor, si quid prodest delicta fateri. (L.) Ov. Am. 2, 4, 3.-I confess my fault if the confession can be of any avail. (2.) Confiteor, a part of the office of the Mass.

797. Congé d'eslire. (Fr.)-Leave to elect.

Term used in the Anglican Church to express the permission granted by the Sovereign to the Chapter of a cathedral to elect a Bishop. This is, however, a matter of form, as the Chapter is bound to nominate the person recommended in the Royal letter which accompanies the Congé.

798. Conjugium vocat, hoc prætexit nomine culpam.

She calls it marriage now; such name

(L.) Virg. A. 4, 172.

She chooses to conceal her shame.—Conington.

Dido's guilty love for Æneas: not the only woman who has endeavoured to screen her shame under a false title. 799. Connubialis amor de Mulcibre fecit Apellem. (L.)-Love turned a blacksmith into an Apelles. Epitaph of Quintin Matsys, the blacksmith-painter of Antwerp.

800. Conscia mens recti famæ mendacia risit Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.

(L.) Ov. F. 4, 311.

Conscious of truth, the mind can smile at lies,
But we're a race too prone t' imagine vice.-Ed.

Si quid usquam justitia est, et mens sibi conscia recti. Virg.
A. 1, 604.-If justice, and a sense of conscious right yet avail
anything.

Conscia mens recti is sometimes used as a periphrasis for innocence, conscious integrity.

801. Conscientiam rectæ voluntatis maximam consolationem esse rerum incommodarun. (L.) Cic. Fam. 6, 4, 2.Consciousness of an honourable intention is the greatest consolation in troubles. (2.) Conscientia mille testes. Quint. 5, 11, 41.-A good conscience is worth a thousand witnesses; and cf. Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omnium sermo. Cic. Att. 12, 28, 2.-The verdict of my own conscience is more to me than the testimony of all men put together. (3.) Bona conscientia turbam advocat, mala etiam in solitudine anxia atque solicita est. Sen. Ep. 43, 5.-A good conscience invites the inspection of all, a bad is anxious and distressed even in solitude.

802. Consensus tollit errorem. (L.) Law Max.-Consent does away with all objections on the score of irregularity.

If

an action ought to have been laid in Surrey, but with the

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