"And now, some captain of the land or fleet,
Stout of his hands, but of a soldier's wit,
Cries, I have sense to serve my turn in store,
And he's a humbug who pretends to more:
Care I whate'er those book-learned blockheads say?
Solon's the veriest fool-can one say nay?""

Aliquis malo sit usus ab illo. Lat. "Some use or benefit may possibly be derived from that evil." There are some mischiefs which have a tendency not only to rectify themselves, but also to produce an opposite result.

Aliquis non debet esse judex in propria causa. Lat. Law maxim.—“ No man should be a judge in his own cause." A lord of the manor, though having cognizance of all kinds of pleas, cannot hold plea where he himself is a party.

Aliquid inane. Lat.-"An indescribable, unaccountable, kind or degree of silliness; trifling; folly."

Alitur vitium, vivitque tegendo. Lat. VIRGIL.-"Vice thrives and lives by concealment." It is in the nature of foul deeds to delight in darkness. The above translation, however, does not convey the meaning of the passage in the original, which has reference to the disease in sheep, called the scab: "This distemper is nourished, and continues to live, continues in a state of vitality, by being covered [instead of being brought to a head by the lancet, according to the suggestion of Virgil].'

Aliud et idem. Lat. One and the same thing, though under different aspects." "We never have returned from abroad after having feasted a month or two on the bread and water called 'potage,' and the exhausted rags denominated 'bouilli,' and all the aliud et idem hash and trash of the common French cuisine, without enjoying, as a great luxury, the natural flavor of beef, mutton, and pork, peas, beans, and potatoes, tasting of themselves, and not of one general clammy stock-pot.'

Alium silere quod valeas, primus sile. Lat. SENECA.-“To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent, do you first hold your peace." Do not irritate an idle dispute by fruitless perseverance.

Aliunde. Lat.-" From some other quarter, person."

All the Russias.—The expression of “All the Russias" is founded on the ancient division of Russia, which comprehended the provinces of Great or Black Russia, Little or Red Russia, and White Russia. St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, took its name from having been built by PETER THE GREAT.

Allah. The name given by the Mohammedans of all classes, to the Almighty.

Allevato nella bambagia. Ital.-" Brought up very tenderly." To be nursed in cotton.

Άλλων ιατρός, αυτος έλκεσι βρυων. Gr. PLUTARCH.- "The physician of others, whilst he himself teems with ulcers." Applied to a man who pretends to cure the faults of others, whilst he has abundance of his own.

ALMA MATER. Lat. "A mild, gentle, benign mother." A term used by students to designate the University in which they were educated.

It is also applied to nature, and to the earth, which affords us every thing we enjoy.

Almans frioun is almans gick. Frisian prov.-"All men's friend is all men's fool."

Alter ego. Lat. CICERO.-"The duplicate, double, second impersonation, counterpart, deputy, representative [should be representive]." "The alter ego of the Sovereign," a phrase applied by LORD CAMPBELL to PRINCE ALBERT.

Alter in obsequium plus aequo pronus:

Alter rixatur de lana saepe caprina,
Propugnat nugis armatus.

Lat. HORACE.

"One man carries his obsequious complaisance to excess [the toad-eater]: another wrangles eternally about trifles, things of no consequence whatever, and, armed with jargon, combats every thing you say [the man of rude and blunt manners]." The application of "Alter rixatur, &c." is to those who are always contending for objects, things, of no moment.

"He strives for trifles, and for toys contends,

And then, in earnest, what he says defends."

N.B. The expression "de lana caprina rixari" is a proverbial one, and is well explained by the scholiast [commentator]: "To dispute about goat's wool," that is, about nothing, since a goat is covered with hair, and not with wool. On the subject of the man of rude and blunt manners, compare SHAKSPEARE:—

"This is some fellow

Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect
A saucy roughness; and constrains the garb,
Quite from his nature: He cannot flatter, he!-
An honest mind and plain,—he must speak truth:
An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain.'

King Lear, Act 2, sc. 2.

Alter remus aquas, alter mihi radat arenas. Lat. PROPERTIUS. -“Let me strike the water with one oar, and with the other scrape the sands." Let me never hazard my safety by getting out of my depth.

-Alterius [sic]

Altera poscit opem res, et conjurat amice. Lat. HORACE."Each [Art and Genius] demands the aid of the other, and conspires amicably to the same end." This is applied by the poet to the alliance which should exist between Art and Genius. It is sometimes used, however, to describe combinations of a different nature.

Alterum lumen Angliæ. Lat.-"The other light, luminary, of England." A phrase at one time applied to the University of OXFORD. "We do not go farther back into times when Oxford was recognized by all as the 'alterum lumen Angliæ,' and the glory of the Church; times, in which all her goodness might be traced to herself; and whenever studies declined or corruptions crept in, it was through some external interference."

AUTOι añoрial. Gr." Difficulties of hard solution, inexplicable difficulties, problematical questions of hard solution." "The lovers of wisdom [philosophers], in the best ages of Athens and of Rome, always discoursed with reverence and submission to the Author and Governor of the world.

They considered of whom they spoke. If they turned to the origin of evil, or to any dark and unfathomable question, they first called upon man to consider the limits of his understanding. They warned him, with most peculiar emphasis, to beware of those uvтоι añорiaι, which are but increased by defenses or arguments ill constructed. They implored him affectionately to avoid all that tends to overthrow, to trouble or disturb, those principles which conduct to peace and to right action. Their advice was to strengthen the intellect, and to compose the passions, not by braving and insulting the all-powerful, all-wise, and all-merciful Creator, but by an humble, patient inquiry into his works, and by submission to his dispensations. They seemed to be well aware that, to him who understood all the bearings and relations of the word, Resignation to tHE WILL OF GOD was the whole of piety.”

Alum, si sit stalum, non est malum,
Beerum, si sit clearum, est sincerum.

Dog Latin of the Hudibrastic cast."If ale be stale, old, it is not bad. If beer be clear, it is pure, unadulterated." Alumnus. Lat. "Pupil, one who receives literary food, mental nourishment, food for the mind." An alumnus of University College, King's College.

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Amabilis insania. Lat. HORACE.-"A fond enthusiasm, an amiable madness, a pleasing frenzy, illusion, infatuation, delirium, a delightful insanity."

Αμαθια μεν θρασος, λογισμος δ' οκνον φερει. Gr. prov.—"Ignorance, stupidity, want of education, begets boldness, audacity of speech; but reflection [the result of good training], diffidence, hesitation in giving one's opinion." Who so bold as blind BAYARD?

Amantium irae. Lat. TERENCE." Lovers' quarrels."

Amantium irae amoris integratio 'st. Lat. TERENCE.-" The quarrels, falling-out, of lovers, is the renewal, renewing, revival, revivification, resuscitation, of love." The disputes of lovers generally end in a warm reconciliation.

Amanuensis. Lat. "A writes what another dictates."

secretary, scribe, clerk, a person who

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Amarae mulieres sunt, non facile ferunt. Lat. TERENCE."Women resent strongly, and do not easily put up with affronts." Compare Menander: Φυσει γυνη δυσήνιον εστι και πικρον: Woman is naturally difficult to rein in, unrestrainable, unguidable, intractable, undrawable, unleadable, and harsh, bitter, sour, austere, implacable."

Amaranth. From the Gr. word auapavros [amarantos], "unfading." A flower incorruptible. The Celosia cristata." Amaranth," says CLELAND, "is a name given to the flower-gentle, from its never withering: it is currently derived from a, signifying not, and μapaivo [maraino], to fade, wither; a derivation so agreeable to sense seems to fix it there: but there occurs to me a still more plausible one; the termination anth is so obviously the Gr. avvos [anthos], flower, that I rather suspect the etymology to stand thus:

a, privative [that is, signifying not],
pap [mar], the Celtic word for death;

whence papaivo, a fading, or tending to death. avdos, flower: un-dying-flower, a-mar-anth:

That the one was taken from the other, there can be no doubt.

Amateur. Fr.-"A lover of any particular pursuit or system." "It must always be, to those who are the greatest amateurs or even professors of revolutions, a matter very hard to prove, that the late French government was so bad, that nothing worse, in the infinite devices of men, could come in its place."-BURKE.

Ambigendi locus. "Reason for doubt, doubting."

Ambiguum pactum contra venditorem interpretandum est. Lat. Law maxim."An ambiguous deed or contract is to be expounded against the seller or grantor." Thus if a man has a warren in his lands, and grants the same land for life, without mentioning the warren, the grantee will have it with the land.

Ambizione di primeggiare. Ital.-"Personal ambition; desire to attain a position of eminence, a distinguished position."

Ambulances. Fr.-"Itinerant or movable military hospitals."

Âme damnée. Fr.-"A tool, drudge, one who will do any dirty work." "The [late] DUKE OF WELLINGTON is not the man to compromise the interests of his glory to the paltry ends of any; nor will he allow himself, we are assured, to be played as their puppet, their âme damnée, by such a body as the Oxford Heads."

Âme de bouc. Fr.-"A soul of mud." A debased, degraded,

creature.

Ameer [or Emir]. "A nobleman." The term is Asiatic and African. Its origin is Moslem.

Ami du peuple. Fr.-"A friend to the people [at large]; the peo

ple's friend."

"Un

If you

Amici vitium ni eras, prodis tuum. Lat. PUBLIUS SYRUS.less you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own." do not concede a little, you disclose your want of temper or of friendship. Amicitia semper prodest, amor et nocet. Lat. LABERIUS."Friendship is always profitable, and love is [frequently] injurious.” Amicum ita habeas posse ut fieri hunc inimicum scias. Lat. LABERIUS.- Be on such terms with your friend as if you knew that he might one day become your enemy."

Amicum perdere est damnorum maximum. SYRUS."To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses."

Lat. PUBLIUS

Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur. Lat. ENNIUS.-"A sure friend is discovered, discerned, in a doubtful matter, when you are on your beam-ends; or, to use a LONDONISM, when you are hard up." It is only in situations of hazard that we can prove the sincerity of friendship.

Amicus curiae. Lat.-"A friend of the court." This appellation is given in Courts of Law to the person who gives his advice, or opinion, when not immediately concerned in the cause.

Amicus humani generis. Lat.-"The friend of the human race." The most glorious title that man can obtain, and which but few HOWARDS and FRANKLINS are found to claim.

Amicus Plato, amicus Socrates, sed magis amica veritas.

Lat." Plato is my friend, Socrates is my friend, but Truth is more my friend." By this quotation the speaker or writer intimates that he is not without his personal feelings and attachments, but that nothing can make him swerve from the sacred interests of truth.

Amicus usque ad aras. Lat.-"A friend even to the altar." One who will sustain his friendship even to the last extremity.

Amittit merito proprium qui alienum adpetit. Lat. PHAEDRUS. -"He deservedly loses his own property who covets, keenly endeavors to get for himself, that of another."'

Frisian prov.—

Amme brea is swieter az memme koeke. "Nurses' bread is sweeter than mothers' cake." A warning to mothers who do not nurse their children, that the affections of the infant will be transferred to those who have the care of them.

Amoebaéan. From auoiẞaios.

"Amoebaean verses."

Gr." Alternately responsive."

Amor a nullo amato amar perdona. Ital. DANTE.—
"True love permits no loved one not to love."

Amor al cor gentil ratto s'apprende. Ital. DANTE.-"True love in gentle heart is quickly learnt, or, True love the gentle, noble, high-souled heart soon apprehends."

Amor e signoria non vogliono compagnia. Ital. prov.-"Love and lordship like no fellowship." The French proverb is, "Amour et seigneurie ne se tinrent jamais compagnie," which has the same meaning.

Amor et deliciae. Lat. CICERO. "The loved one and the darling favorite." "ANACREON was the favorite, the amor et deliciae, of his own age, and he has had the singular fortune to preserve to our days, not only his fame, but even his popularity, in the verses of imitators whose very names are long since lost."

Amor gignit amorem. Lat.-"Love begets, or gives rise to, love."
Amor nummi. Lat. JUVENAL.-"The love of money."

Amor omnibus idem. Lat. VIRGIL.-"Love is lord of all, and is in all the same."

Amor patriae. Lat.-"The love of our country, native soil, native land, the land of our birth."

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amor patriae."

Amor soli. Lat.-The meaning the same as Amor tussisque non celantur. Lat.-"Love and a cough cannot be hidden, concealed."

Amoto quaeramus seria ludo. Lat. HORACE.-"Setting raillery aside, let us now attend to serious matters. Laying aside mirth, let us reason seriously."

Amour fait beaucoup, mais argent fait tout. Fr. prov.-"Love does much, but money does every thing." Beauty is potent, but money is OMNIPOTENT. Talk is but talk; but 'tis money that buys land.

Amour fait rage, mais argent fait mariage. Fr. prov.-“ Love causes raging, but money marriaging."

Amour-propre. Fr.-" Self-love." The true meaning, however, of the term is "a modification of pride."

Amphibious." Having two modes of existence, living:" applied, though not, strictly speaking, correctly, to animals that can live both on