1277. Duldet muthig, Millionen! Duldet für die bess're Welt! Droben über'm Sternenzelt Wird ein grosser Gott belohnen. (G.) Schill. An die Freunde. Suffer bravely, ye Millions! suffer for the better world! There above the canopy of stars will a great God reward you. Written after rescuing a young man from contemplated suicide. 1278. Dum fata fugimus, fata stulti incurrimus. (L.) Buchanan ? -While we fly our fate, we are all the while blindly rushing on to it. 1279. Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc impellitur. (L.) Ter. And. 1, 5, 31.-While the mind is in suspense, a very little suffices to turn it this way or that. 1280. Dum loquor, hora fugit. While I speak time flies. (L.) Ov. Am. 1, 11, 15. 1281. Dummodo sit dives, barbarus ipse placet. (L.) Ov. A. A. 2, 276.-Provided he be rich, a foreigner himself pleases well enough. 1282. Dum ne ob malefacta peream, parvi æstimo. (L.) Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 24.-Provided it be not for evil-doing, I care little for dying. 1283. Du moment qu'on aime, On devient si doux. (Fr.) Marmontel (Zémire et Azor).-The moment one is in love, one becomes so amiable. 1284. Dum, or quamdiu se bene gesserit. (L.) Law Term.As long as he conduct himself properly. During good behaviour. (2.) Durante beneplacito.-During our good pleasure. Both these phrases express the tenure under which most official appointments, such as judgeships and others, are held. Durante vita (during life) would, on the other hand, imply that the office or emolument was held absolutely, independent of all contingencies, until death. 1285. Dum spiro spero. (L.)-While I breathe I hope. Motto of Viscount Dillon. 1286. Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores; Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede. (L.) Ov. A. A. 2, 669. While strength and years allow, your toils enduro: 1287. Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt. (L.) Hor. S. 1, 2, 24. To escape one vice, fools rush into extremes.-Ed. 1288. Dum vivimus, vivamus. (L.)—Inscr. Gruter.-While we live, let us enjoy life. Enjoy life while you can. "Live while you live," the epicure would say, "And seize the pleasures of the present day."-Doddridge. (2.) Manducemus et bibamus, cras enim moriemur. Vulg. Cor. 1, 15, 32.-Let us eat and drink for to-morrow we die. (3.) Dum licet, in rebus jucundis vive beatus, Vive memor quam sis ævi brevis. Hor. S. 2, 6, 96. Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may, With life so short, 'twere wrong to lose a day. -Conington. (4.) Dum fata sinunt, vivite læti. (L.) Sen. Herc. Fur. 177.While fate allows, live happily. (5.) Sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi Spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Strain your wine, and prove your wisdom: life is short, should In the moment of our talking, envious time has slipped away. (6.) Indulge genio, carpamus dulcia; nostrum est Vive memor leti: fugit hora; hoc, quod loquor, inde est. Stint not then your inclination, pluck the rose-bud while you may; It is ours the living moment, soon you'll be but dust and clay. 1289. D'un dévot souvent au chrétien véritable -Ed. La distance est deux foix plus longue, à mon avis, 'Twixt a true Christian and a devotee The distance, to my mind, is twice as great As from the Antarctic Pole to Davis' Strait.-Ed. 1290. Duplex est omnino jocandi genus: unum illiberale, petulans, flagitiosum, obscœnum; alterum elegans, urbanum, ingeniosum, facetum. (L.) Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104.-There are two kinds of joking. There is the ungentlemanly, rude, outrageous, or filthy class of jokes: and there is the refined, witty, clever, and humorous species. 1291. Dura aliquis præcepta vocet mea; dura fatemur Esse; sed ut valeas, multa dolenda feres. (L.) Ov. R. A. 225. Hard precepts these, one says; I own they are: 1292. Dura Exerce imperia, et ramos compesce fluentes. (L.) Virg. G. 2, 370. Exert a rigorous sway, And lop the too luxuriant boughs away.-Dryden. Very necessary advice to a prolix author. 1293. Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis. (L.) Virg. A. 1, 207. Endure the hardships of the present state; Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.-Dryden. 1294. Durum! Sed levius fit patientia Quicquid corrigere est nefas. (L.) Hor. C. 3, 24, 19. "Tis hard, but what's impossible to change, Patience will make more light.-Ed. 1295. Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas. (Fr.)-There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. The saying is attributed to Napoleon I., with reference to the Retreat from Moscow in 1813, a phrase which, in conversation with his ambassador, De Pradt, at Warsaw, he kept on repeating five or six times over. The mot is, however, of an earlier origin. Marmontel, 1799 (Works, vol. v. p. 188), has, "En général, le ridicule touche au sublime."-In general the ridiculous approaches very nearly to the sublime: Tom Paine, Age of Reason, 1794, pt. 2, fin. (note), had said, "One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.' Cf. also Wieland, Abderiten (1774), vol. iii. cap. 12: Die Dummheit hat ihr Sublimes so gut als der Verstand, und wer darin bis zum Absurden gehen kann, hat das Erhabene in dieser Art erreicht. (G.)-Stupidity has a Sublime of its own as well as wit, and whoever can make it appear absurd, has attained the Sublime in this particular. And to go to Classical periods, Cf. Longin. de Subl. 311 : Ἐκ τοῦ φοβεροῦ κατ ̓ ὀλίγον ὑπονοστεῖ πρὸς τὸ EŮKатаÓрÓVηтоV. (Gr.)-The change from the dreadful to the contemptible is but slight (vide Büchmann, p. 386). 1296. Du titre de clément rendez le ambitieux; C'est par là que les rois sont semblables au dieux. (Fr.) La Font. (Nymphes de Vaux). To the title of merciful make him aspire; Kings are likest to gods when they conquer their ire.—Ed. K 1299. Ea quoniam nemini obtrudi potest, Itur ad me. (L.) Ter. And. 1, 5, 16.—As they cannot foist her off on any one else, they have recourse to me. Said of an unmarriageable girl. 1300. Ea sola voluptas, Solamenque mali. (L.) Virg. A. 3, 660.-His "sole remaining joy" and solace of his woes. Said of the flocks of the Cyclops Polyphemus after he was blinded by Ulysses. 1301. Eau bénite de cour. (Fr.)--lit. Court holy water. False promises. 1302. Ebbe il migliore De' miei giorni la patria. (It.) Metast. ?-The best of my days were devoted to my country. 1303. E cœlo descendit yvô σeavròv. (L.) Juv. 11, 27.From heaven descends the precept, Know thyself. Admonition of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi. It has been attributed to Thales (? Chilo), one of the Seven Sages. Quum igitur, nosce te, dicit, hoc dicit, Nosce animum tuum: nam corpus quidem quasi vas est aut aliquod animi receptaculum: ab animo tuo quidquid agitur, id agitur a te. Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, 22, 52.-When the god says, Know thyself, he means, Know thy own mind: the body being, as it were, the vessel and receptacle of the mind, so that whatever is done by your mind, is done by yourself. 1304. Ecce Agnus Dei, qui tollit peccata mundi. (L.) Vulg. Joan, i. 29.-Behold the Lamb of God! that taketh away the sins of the world! M. of Tallow Chandlers' Company. 1305. Ecce Homo. (L.) Vulg. Joan, xix. 5.—Behold the Man! Pilate's words on presenting Our Lord to the Jews. Pictures of Our Lord in purple robe and Crown of Thorns and bearing a reed are also so called. 1306. Ecce iterum Crispinus! et est mihi sæpe vocandus A vitiis, æger, solaque libidine fortis. (L.) Juv. 4, 1. This unmitigated scoundrel, Ecce iterum Crispinus is said of any person or character who is for ever coming on the scene, or continually "turning-up." What here again! Ecce iterum Crispinus! 1307. Ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum mala fortuna compositus. (L.) Sen. Prov. 2.-A brave man struggling with misfortune is a match worthy of the Gods to behold. 1308. Ἐχθρῶν ἄδωρα δῶρα κουκ ὀνήσιμα. (Gr.) Soph. Αj. 665. A foeman's gifts are no gifts, but a curse.-Calverley. 1309. Εχθρὸς γάρ μοι κεῖνος ὁμῶς Αίδαο πύλῃσιν, Ος χ ̓ ἕτερον μὲν κέυθῃ ἐνὶ φρέσιν, ἄλλο δε βάζῃ. (Gr.) Hom. II. 9, 312.-The man is hateful to me as the gates of Hades, who conceals one thing in his breast, and utters another. 1310. E contra. (L.)-On the other hand. 1311. Ecorcher une anguille par la queue. (Fr.) Prov.-To skin an eel from the tail. To begin a business at the wrong end. 1312. Edepol næ hic dies pervorsus et advorsus mihi obtigit. (L.) Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 1.-(Menæchmus loq.) I declare this day has gone all wrong and contrary with me! 1313. "Hdưтov ǎkovσμa éñaivos. (Gr.) Xen. Mem. 1, 15.—Praise is the sweetest thing to hear. 1314. Η ἥκιστα, ἤ ἤδιστα. (Gr.)-Either the least possible, or the pleasantest possible. If you have bad news, tell it as quickly as you can. 1315. Effloresco. (L.)-I flourish. Motto of Earl Cairns. 1316. Effugit mortem, quisquis contempserit: timidissimum quemque consequitur. (L.) Curt. 4, 14, 25.-The man who despises death escapes it, while it overtakes him who is most frightened at it. 1317. Effutire leves indigna Tragoedia versus, Ut festis matrona moveri jussa diebus, Intererit Satyris paullum pudibunda protervis. Tragedy and Comedy. (L.) Hor. A. P. 231. Like a staid matron on some gala day, Who, if she trips it, moves with dignity, So Tragedy, disdaining vulgar chatter, Consorts but for the nonce with Faun and Satyr.-Ed. |