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3118. Mortalium rerum misera beatitudo.

(L.) Boeth. Cons.

Ph. 2, 4.—The miserable blessedness attending human

affairs.

3119. Mos pro lege.

(L.)-Usage for law.

Long established

custom has the force of law.

3120. Mot à mot. (Fr.)-Word for word. Literally. (2.) Mot du guet.-A watch-word. (3.) Mots d'usage.-Words in

common use.

3121. Moveo et profiteor.

(L.)—I move and prosper. Earl of

Ranfurly.

3122. Mugitus labyrinthi. (L.) Juv. 1, 53.—The roaring of the labyrinth.

The monster, Minotaur, half man, half bull, was imprisoned in the
Labyrinth in Crete, and fed on human flesh.

Theseus slew him
Juvenal mentions

and escaped by the clew furnished by Ariadne.
it as a hackneyed topic of fourth-rate Roman poets.

3123. Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,

In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua. (L.) Catull. 70, 3.-What a woman says to her ardent lover, ought to be written on the winds, or on running water. Transient, fleeting vows and professions.

Cf. Keats' epitaph :

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

3124. Mulier profecto nata est ex ipsa mora.

(L.) Plaut. Mil. 4, 7, 9.-Woman certainly is the offspring of tardiness

itself.

3125. Mulier quæ sola cogitat male cogitat. (L.) Prov.-A woman who thinks alone, thinks of mischief.

3126. Mulier recte olet, ubi nihil olet. (L.) Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 141.-A woman smells sweetest, when she smells of nothing.

3127. Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra. (L.) ? Aul. Gell.-There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.

3128. Multa dies, variique labor mutabilis ævi,

Rettulit in melius, multos alterna revisens
Lusit, et in solido rursus fortuna locavit.

Vicissitude.

(L.) Virg. A. 11, 425.

Time, toil, and circumstance full oft

A humbled cause has raised aloft,

And fortune whom she mocked before

Has placed on solid ground once more.-Conington.

3129. Multæ terricolis linguæ, cœlestibus una. μεν θνήτοις γλώτται, μία δ ̓ ἀθανάτοισιν. -The inhabitants of earth have many heaven have but one.

(L.), or Πολλαὶ (Gr.) Η. Carey H. languages, those of

3130. Multa fero ut placeam genus irritabile vatum.

(L.) Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 102.

Much I endure indeed (perhaps you know it)
To please the irritable genus poet.-Ed.

3131. Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum;
Multa recedentes adimunt.

(L.) Hor. A. P. 175.

Years, as they come, bring blessings in their train :
Years, as they go, take blessings back again.-Conington.

3132. Multa petentibus Desunt multa.

Bene est cui Deus obtulit

Parca, quod satis est, manu. (L.) Hor. C. 3, 16, 42.
Who much require are much in want;
'Tis best if, just what life demands,
God furnish us with sparing hands.—Ed.

3133. Multa quidem scripsi: sed quæ vitiosa putavi

Emendaturis ignibus ipse dedi.

(L.) Ov. T. 4, 10, 61.

-I have written much, but what I thought faulty I threw
myself into the corrective flames.

3134. Multa renascentur quæ jam cecidere, cadentque
Quæ nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus,
Quem penes arbitrium est, et jus, et norma loquendi.

(L.) Hor. A. P. 71.

Yes, words long faded may again revive;
And words may fade now blooming and alive,
If usage wills it so, to whom belongs

The rule and law, the government of tongues.-Conington.

(L.)

3135. Multa rogant utenda dari; data reddere nolunt. Ov. A. A. 1, 433.-They (women) are always asking you to lend them money; but they never repay the loan. 3136. Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda ; vel quod Quærit, et inventis miser abstinet, ac timet uti; Vel quod res omnes timide gelideque ministrat. (L.) Hor. A. P. 169.

Drawbacks of old age.

Grey hairs have many evils: without end

The old man gathers what he dares not spend.

While, as for action, do he what he will,

"Tis all half-hearted, spiritless, and chill.—Conington.

3137. Multi adorantur in ara qui cremantur in igne. (L.) Augustin. Many are worshipped at the altar who are burning in flames. Said of the worship paid to heathen deities, the emperor, etc.

3138. Multi Committunt eadem diverso crimina fato, Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.

(L.) Juv. 13, 103.

Men the same crimes commit with varying end;
And some a scaffold, some a throne ascend.-Ed.

3139. Multi, inquam, sunt, Lucili, qui non donant, sed projiciunt; non voco ego liberalem, pecuniæ suæ iratum. (L.) Sen. Ep. 120.--There are many, Lucilius, who do not give, but throw away; and I do not call a man liberal because he is angry with his money.

3140. Multi multa, nemo omnia novit.

(L.)—Many men have

known much, no one has ever known everything.

3141. Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit;

Nulli flebilior quam tibi, Virgili. (L.) Hor. C. 1, 24, 9.

By many a good man wept, Quintilius dies;

By none than you, my Virgil, trulier wept.-Conington.

3142. Multitudinem decem faciunt. (L.) Coke-Ten persons

make a crowd.

(L.)

Cf.

3143. Multo plures satietas quam fames perdidit viros.
Many more men die of surfeit than of hunger.
Multos morbos multa fercula fecerunt. Sen. Ep. 95.-
Many maladies are the result of dinners of many courses.

3144. Multorum manibus grande levatur opus. hands make light work.

(L.) — Many

3145. Multos experimur ingratos, plures facimus.

(L.) Sen.

Ben. 1, init.-We find many men who are ungrateful;

we make more.

3146. Multos in summa pericula misit

Venturi timor ipse mali. Fortissimus ille est

Qui promtus metuenda pati, si cominus instent,
Et differre potest.

True courage.

(L.) Lucan. 7, 104.

Many's the mortal whom the very dread

Of coming ill has into danger sped.

But bravest he who, prompt to meet his fate,

Can face the shock, or can with patience wait.-Ed.

3147. Multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitiæ munus expletum sit. (L.) Cic. Am. 19, 67.-(As the saying

goes) We must eat many bushels of salt together, before we can achieve a real friendship.

3148. Multum est demissus homo. (L.) Hor. S. 1, 3, 57.-He is a very unassuming man.

3149. Multum in parvo.

compass.

(L.)-Much in little. Much in a little

3150. Multum sapit qui non diu desipit. (L.)-He is wise who does not persist in folly long.

3151. Mundæque parvo sub lare pauperum

Cœnæ sine aulæo et ostro,

Sollicitam explicuere frontem. (L.) Hor. C. 3, 29, 14.
The poor man's supper, neat but spare,

With no gay couch to seat the guest,

Has smooth'd the rugged brow of care.-Conington.

3152. Munditiis capimur. (L.) Ov. A. A. 3, 133.—We are attracted by neatness.

3153. Mundus scena, vita transitus, venisti, vidisti, abiisti. (L.)? -The world is a stage, and life your passage across it; you enter, you look around you, you make your exit.

3154. Mundus universus exercet histrioniam. (L.) Petron. Fr. 10. All the world plays the actor's part.

3155. Munit hæc, et altera vincit. (L.)—This defends, and the other conquers. Nova Scotia Knights.

3156. Munus et officium nil scribens ipse docebo,

Unde parentur opes, quid alat formetque poetam ;
Quid deceat, quid non: quo virtus, quo ferat error.
(L.) Hor. A. P. 306.

Although no writer, I may yet impart

To writing folk the precepts of their art.

Whence come its stores, what trains and forms the bard,

And how a work is made, and how 'tis marred.—Conington.

3157. Munus nostrum ornato verbis quod poteris. (L.) Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 8.-Set off my present with all the eloquence you can.

3158. Murranum hic, atavos et avorum antiqua sonantem Nomina, per regesque actum genus omne Latinos.

(L.) Virg. A. 12, 529.

Murranus too, whose boastful tongue

With high-born sires and grandsires rung,

And pedigrees of long renown

Through Latian monarchs handed down.-Conington.

3159. Murus æneus conscientia sana. (L.)-An easy conscience is a wall of brass. Motto of the Earl of Scarborough. 3160. Mutare vel timere sperno. (L.)—I scorn either to change

or to fear. M. of the Duke of Beaufort and Lord Raglan. 3161. Mutatis mutandis. (Law L.)-The necessary changes being made. If the persons, places, dates, events, circumstances (or what not) be changed, the same remark will apply.

3162. Mutum est pictura poema.

A picture is a poem without words.

(L.)

N.

3163. Nach Canossa gehen wir nicht. (G.)-We will not go to Canossa. Bismarck in Parliament, May 1872.

Canossa is a town near Reggio in Northern Italy, where Emperor Henry IV. (1077) obtained absolution from Pope Gregory VII. (Hildebrand) after three days' humiliation. Bismarck's phrase implied that the present German Empire was not going to surrender so abjectly to the Papal claims.

3164. Næ amicum castigare ob meritam noxiam

Immune est facinus. (L.) Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 1.—Truly, it is a thankless office enough to reprove a friend for a fault when he deserves it.

3165. Nam de mille fabæ modiis dum surripis unum,

Damnum est, non facinus mihi pacto lenius isto.

(L.) Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 55.

Steal but one bean, although the loss be small,
The crime's as great as if you stole them all.-Conington.

3166. Nam dives qui fieri vult, Et cito vult fieri.

(L.) Juv. 14, 176.

Who'd be rich would be so quickly.—Shaw.

3167. Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. (L.) Bacon, Medit. Sacr. de Hæresibus. For knowledge itself is power.

Cf. Vir sapiens, fortis est: et vir doctus robustus et validus. Vulg. Prov. 24, 5.—A wise man is strong, and a learned man is powerful and mighty.

3168. Nam genus, et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi,

Vix ea nostra voco.

(L.) Ov. M. 13, 140.

For birth and lineage and all such renown,

Bequeathed not made, can scarce be called our own.-Ed.

Last four words, Motto of Earl of Warwick and Lord
Greville.

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