strike the mind of the reader more forcibly when the form of expression was slightly altered, I have not scrupled to give a lax translation. BONIS bona disce.-Profit by good example. A bove majori discit arare minor.- From the "The young cock crows as he hears the old one." "As the old birds sing the young ones twitter." A fronte præcipitium, à tergo lupus.-A precipice is in front, a wolf behind. "Go forward and fall-go backward and mar all." See "Lupum." "Ventus neque." A magna non degenerare culinâ. Juv.-To keep up as good a cuisine as your father. A mortuo tributum exigère.—To exact an offering from the dead. A puro pura defluit aqua. From a pure source pure water comes. A risu effuso abstine.-Indulge not in boisterous mirth. "He laughs ill that laughs himself to death." Ab actu ad posse valet illatio.-From what has taken place we infer what is about to happen. "From the straws in the air we judge of the wind." "But shepherds know How hot the mid-day sun shall glow From the mist of morning sky." SCOTT. Ab altero expectes, alteri quod feceris. LAB.--As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you. "Do unto others as you would be done unto." Ab asinis ad boves transcendere. PLAUT.-TO rise to a higher position. Ab equinis pedibus procul recede. "Trust not a horse's heels." Ab inopia ad virtutem obsepta est via.-Hard is the path from poverty to renown. "A broken sleeve holdeth the arm back." See "Haud facile." Ab ipso lare. From home itself. [To begin at home.] Ab ovo usque ad mala. From the egg to the apple. [From the beginning to the end of a feast.] Ab transenna lumbricum pětĕre. PLAUT.-To snatch the "How use doth breed a habit in a man." SHAKS. See "Usus est." Abnormis sapiens.—A man of good natural plain common sense. Absens hæres non erit.—The absent one will not be the heir. "Out of sight out of mind." See "Multas amicitias." Absentem lædit, cum ebrio qui litigat. SYR. He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent. "He that is drunk is gone from home." Absentem qui rodit amicum, Qui non defendit, alio culpante, He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel. Absit clamor in colloquio aut lusu.—Avoid bawling in conversation or in play. Absque băculo ne ingreditor.-Leave not your staff at home. |