Ancient and Modern Familiar Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern ...

"Men live best upon a little. Nature has granted to all to be happy, if the use of her gifts were but properly known." Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urguentur, ignotique longa

Nocte, carent quia vate sacro. "Before great Agamemnon reigned,

Lat. HORACE.

Reigned kings as great as he, and brave,
Whose huge ambition's now contained

In the small compass of a grave;

In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown:
No bard had they to make all time their own."

A beautiful illustration of the value of poetry, in consecrating and embalming the deeds of virtue and of valor."

Vocabula artis. Lat.-"Professional terms, words, or expressions: jaw-breaking words."

Volenti non fit injuria. Lat. Law maxim.-"To one who willingly embarks in any cause, or willingly gives his assent to any measure, no injury is done." No one can complain of wrong in a proceeding, when the measure had his previous assent.

Voluptates commendat rarior usus. Lat. JUVENAL.-"Our pleasures have a higher relish when they are but rarely used." The keenest sense of pleasure is blunted by a too frequent repetition.

Volventibus annis. Lat.-"In the course of years."

Vox et praeterea nihil. Lat.-"A voice and nothing more." An empty and unavailing sound; a fine speech without matter; a mere display of words; mere moonshine.

Vox faucibus haesit. Lat. VIRGIL.-"My voice stuck in my throat." Spoken by a person struck dumb with amazement.

Vox populi. Lat. "The voice of the people, the popular voice." Vox populi vox Dei. Lat.-"The voice of the people is the voice of GOD."

Vox Stellarum. Lat.-"The voice of the stars." "Moore's Almanac, the scandal of the respectable company of Stationers, is still sold by the Stationers at their Hall, with Vox Stellarum for the first words on the title-page."

Vraisemblance. Fr.-"Probability or likelihood." good deal of vraisemblance in the circumstances."

"There is a

Vulnus alit venis, et caeco carpitur igni. Lat. VIRGIL.-"She [or he] nourishes the poison in the veins, and is consumed by the hidden fire." Applied very frequently to a secret passion, where, according to our immortal bard,

"Concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,

Feeds on the damask cheek."

Vultus est index animi. Lat. prov.-"The countenance is the index or portraiture of the mind." So say the disciples of LAVATER; but, like other general rules, it is liable to many exceptions.

Vultus instantis tyranni. Lat. HORACE.-"The stern gaze or

look of the threatening tyrant." In other words, the stern and ruthless tyrant himself. "One terrible presence, one active mischief, vultus in

stantis tyranni, is mercifully withdrawn from us.”

Zollverein. German.-The Prusso-Germanic Customs League.
Zonam perdidit. Lat. HORACE.-"He has lost his purse." He is

desperate through the want of money.

INDEX.

** In this Index only the principal words, or those most likely to be remembered, in the
several quotations, will be found, and the initial words are all omitted, as the quotations are
arranged in alphabetical order.

Two (or more) words should always be looked out in the Index, when they occur in many
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