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land and in water.

The true meaning of aμpißios, amphibious, is “par

taking of both sexes."

-Amphora coepit

Institui; currente rota cur urceus exit?

Lat. HORACE.

"A large jar was begun to be formed: why, as the wheel goes round, does it turn out to be an insignificant, paltry pitcher or water-pot?" The metaphor [an implied comparison, the use of a word in a sense different from its ordinary import, meaning] is taken from the potter's wheel. The quotation is applied to those who, having promised a magnificent work, produced in the end something inadequate, and perhaps contemptible.

Ampliat aetatis spatium sibi vir bonus. Hoc est
Vivere bis, vita posse priori frui.

Lat. MARTIAL.— "A good man enlarges the term of his own existence. It is living twice to be enabled to enjoy one's former life." He lives the preceding years over again in pleasing recollection.

-Αμφι δ' ανθρω

πων φρασιν αμπλακίαι

αναρίθμητοι κρεμανται,

τουτο δ' αμαχανον εὑρειν,

ὁ τι νυν εν και τελευτα φέρτατον ανδρι τυχειν. Gr. PINDAR,—

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'Deep wrapt in error is the human mind,

And human bliss is ever insecure:

Know we what fortune yet remains behind?

Know we how long the present will endure?"

Αμφότεροι κλωπες, και ὁ δεξαμενος και ὁ κλεψας. Gr. prov.-PHOCYLIDES. "Both are thieves, the receiver and the thief." The receiver is as bad as the thief.

-An haec animos aerugo et cura peculi
Quum semel imbuerit, speramus carmina fingi
Posse linenda cedro, et levi servanda cupresso?

Lat. HORACE.

"When once this rust and love of gain has taken hold of the soul, got possession of the soul, can we imagine it capable of noble thoughts, or of poems worthy to be kept in cases of cypress and cedar ?"

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'But when the rust of wealth pollutes the soul,

And moneyed cares the genius thus control,
How shall we dare to hope that distant times

With honor should preserve our lifeless rhymes?"

N.B. The ancients, for the better preservation of their manuscripts, rubbed them with oil of cedar and kept them in cases of cypress.

An nescis longas regibus esse manus? Lat. OVID.-"Do you not know that kings have long hands?" "It were to be wished," says SWIFT, "that they had as long ears."

An praeter esse reale actualis essentiae sit aliud esse necessarium, quo res actualiter existat? MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.-" Whether, besides the real being of actual being, there be any other being necessary to cause a thing to be?" A question humorously put to ridicule the absurdity of metaphysics run mad.

An quisquam est alius liber, nisi ducere vitam

Cui licet, ut voluit?

Lat. PERSIUS.

"Is any man free, a freeman, but he that may live as he pleases?"

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Anachronism. "A transposition of dates." 'Major R. was once riding near a building which presented to his admiring gaze a fine specimen of antique Saxon architecture. Desirous of learning something respecting it, he made some inquiries of a man, who, as it turned out, was the cobbler of the village. This learned wight informed the inquisitive stranger that the building in question was reckoned a noble specimen of Gothic architecture, and was built by the Romans, who came over with JULIUS CESAR. 'Friend,' said the Major, 'you make anachronisms.' 'No, no, sir,' replied the man, ‘indeed I don't make anachronisms, for I never made any thing but shoes in all my life.""

Anagrammatism, or, Metagrammatism. The latter is the correct term. Anagrammatism means, literally, the art of writing backwardsin which sense Amor [Love] is an anagram of Roma [Rome], and evil of live: but metagrammatism implies a transposition of letters, which has become the popular sense of anagrammatism. A metagram, then, is the transposition of the letters in one or more words to form a new word, or new words. "Father Finardi, with great felicity, said of Magliabecchi, the celebrated librarian of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Is unus bibliotheca magna, that being the metagram [transposition of letters] of his Latinized name, Antonius Magliabbechius:" that is to say, He alone, or in himself, is a great library, that being, &c. There seems to be a secret meaning in the very letters of a name, which only require to be decompounded and newly arranged, to reveal the life and character of the wearer. Let those who may be disposed to laugh at this theory, as fanciful, remember that they might in this manner have read the history of the battle of the Nile at the christening of HORATIO NELSON: “Honor est a Nilo” [a sentence composed of the letters of Lord Nelson's Christian name and surname—a metagram]: "Honor est a Nilo" means Honor is from the Nile. The metagram is said to have been made by a SCHOOL-BOY.

Anakim. Hebrew.-"Giants."

Ancien régime. Fr.-"The former, old, government, old form of government, former administration."

Ancienne noblesse. Fr.-The "old nobility" [of France], nobility prior to the Revolution of the last century.

Andare stretto. Ital.-"To go about a business in a miserly manner." To lose a sheep for a halfpenny-worth of tar.

Avopos dikαιov kapπos оvк аπоhλνтαι. Gr. "The good deeds [literally, fruit] of a righteous, just, upright, man perish not.'

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Ανδρος κακως πρασσοντος εκποδών φιλοι. Gr. prov.—“When a man is in difficulties, is ill to do in the world, his friends stand aloof, keep out of the way. "" A friend is never known till one have need. See "Donec eris felix, &c."

Ανδρων ἡρωων τεκνα πήματα. Gr. prov.-"The children of brave men are often a disgrace to them." Many a good cow hath but a bad calf.

Avпp aτvxwv σwGETAI TAIS EXTTIOL. Gr. prov.-"The man who is in ad

versity is supported, sustained, buoyed up, by hope." If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

Ανηρ δικαιος εστιν, ουχ ὁ μη αδίκων,

Αλλ' όστις αδικειν δυνάμενος, ου βουλεται. Gr.

"Just, upright, righteous, is the man, not merely he who abstains from acting iniquitously, unjustly, but he who, having it in his power, having full scope, to indulge in every kind of wickedness, has no wish whatever to do so."

Anglice. Lat.-"In English, according to the English fashion." Anguillam cauda tenes. Lat. prov.-"You hold an eel by the tail." You are engaged with an active and slippery opponent.

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Anguis in herba. Lat. VIRGIL.-"A snake in the grass." A lurking danger, or one not actually foreseen."

Angulus terrae. Lat. HORACE.—“ A corner of the earth, some snug spot in the land." "When I leave the Temple, hopeless to find another spot consecrated by so much valor and so much wisdom, it should be for some angulus terrae, some wood-girt corner, which the foot of soldier or of lawyer has never yet been known to press.'

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Aniles fabulae. Lat. QUINTILIAN.-"Old wives' stories, humdrum prosings."

Aniliana. Lat. The same meaning as the preceding example.

Animal implume, bipes. Lat.-" An animal without feathers, and walking on two legs." "This is PLATO's imperfect definition of a man, which was so successfully ridiculed by DIOGENES, who brought a plucked cock into the school, and scornfully asked "if that was PLATO's man?"

Animal propter convivia natum. Lat. JUVENAL.-"An animal created, called into existence, to feast a whole company." Applied to the porcine, piggish or hoggish family. "Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis [eatable world, world of things good to eat], says CHARLES LAMB, I will maintain roast pig to be the most delicate, princeps obsoniorum [the very prince of dishes, articles of food]. I speak not of your grown porkers, things between pig and pork, those hobbydehoys, but a young and tender suckling, under a moon old, guiltless as yet of the sty, with no original speck of the amor immunditiae [love of nastiness, uncleanness, filthiness], the hereditary failing of the first parent. yet manifest; his voice as yet not broken, but something between a childish treble and a grumble, the mild forerunner or praeludium [essay, proof, trial beforehand, preamble] of a grunt."

Animal risibile. Lat.-"An animal which can laugh." One of the definitions of man, given or suggested by the philosophers of the schools. Animalcula. Lat.—“Very small, minute animals, living creatures." Usually, though incorrectly, written "Animalculæ," as there is no such word. 'Animalculum," the singular of “Animalcula," is a word not sanctioned by the ancient Latin writers.

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Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus. Lat. CICERO. -"Cultivation is as necessary to the mind, as food is to the body."

Animo et facto. Lat.-"Verily and indeed, really and truly." Animo vidit; ingenio complexus est; eloquentia illuminavit. Lat. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS Concerning CICERO.-"These subjects he

saw by the power of his mind; he comprehended them by his understanding; and by his eloquence he enlightened them, cast a brightness upon them." This quotation has been applied to BURKE.

-Animoque supersunt

Jam prope post animam.

Lat. SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS.—

"Their spirit seems even to survive their breath." Compare the exquisitely beautiful lines of GRAY:

"On some fond breast the parting soul relies,
Some pious drops the closing eye requires;
E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires."

Animula, vagula, blandula,
Hospes, comesque corporis!
Quae nunc abibis in loca,
Pallidula, frigida, nudula,
Nec, ut soles, dabis joca ?

The celebrated verses of the Roman Emperor, HADRIAN, addressed to his soul. "Alas! my soul! thou pleasing companion of this body, thou fleeting thing, that art now deserting it? whither art thou flying? To what unknown region? Thou art all trembling, fearful, and pensive. Now, what is become of thy former wit and humor? Thou shalt jest and be gay no more."

Animum nunc huc celerem, nunc dividit illuc. Lat. VIRGIL."This way and that he turns his anxious mind." A picture of an active mind, always bent on exertion.

Animum pictura pascit inani. Lat. VIRGIL.-"He fills his mind with a vain or idle picture; or, He feeds his mind with empty representations." He dwells with eagerness upon the painted semblance. This is sometimes applied in ridicule to dilettanti, or picture-fanciers.

Animum rege, qui, nisi paret, imperat. Lat. HORACE.-"Subdue your passion, or it will subdue you." Study to acquire that selfcontrol which will prevent your being hurried away by the force of your passions.

Animus. Lat.—"The feeling, disposition." "The animus of his charges," that is, the feeling that prompted him to make his charges.

Animus furandi. Lat. Law.-"The intention of stealing." He took the goods animo furandi, with a felonious design.

Animus in pedes decidit. Lat.-"His heart fell down to his hose, his heels."

Animus lucis contemtor. Lat. VIRGIL.-"A mind regardless of life [if sacrificed in a good cause]."

-Animus, quod perdidit, optat

Atque in praeterita se totus imagine versat.

Lat. PETRONIUS ARBITER."Oft does the mind wish for, desiderate, what it has missed, and loses itself in the retrospective contemplation." Most men have occasion to look back with regret on their lost opportunities. Compare SHAKSPEARE: There is a tide in the affairs of men,

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Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries."

Anno aetatis. Lat.-"In the year of his, or her, age."

Anno di neve, anno di bene. Ital. prov.—“ A snow year, a rich year."

Anno Domini. Lat.-"In the year of our Lord."

Annonce. Fr.-"Notice; intimation; advertisement."

Annosa vulpes non capitur laqueo. Lat. prov.—“ An old fox is not caught in a snare, trap." You can't catch old birds with chaff.

Annus mirabilis. Lat.—“A wonderful year, year of wonders." N.B. A poem of DRYDEN'S was so called in commemoration of the great fire of London.

Ante barbam doces senes. Lat. prov.-"You teach old persons before you yourself have a beard, while you are but a boy." Jack Sprat would teach his grandame, his granny.

Ante litem motam. Lat.-"Before the case is mooted; before the mooting of the case; before the commencement of the action, or trial.” Ante lucem. Lat.-"Before daybreak."

Ante omnia. Lat.—“Before every thing else; first and foremost; in the first place."

Ante tubam trepidat. Lat.-"He trembles, quakes for fear, before the trumpet or charge is sounded." His fears anticipate the danger.

Ante victoriam ne canas triumphum. Lat. prov.-"Do not triumph, exult, before you have gained the victory." Count not your chickens before they be hatched.

Ανθρωπος εστι πνευμα και σκια μονον. Gr. EURIPIDES.—“ Man is but a breath and a shadow." Compare HORACE:

Pulvis et umbra sumus.

Quis scit an adjiciant hodiernae crastina summae
Tempora Di superi?

"We are naught but shade and dust. Who knows whether the gods above will add, intend to add, to-morrow to the days already passed?" Compare also this passage from the General Epistle of James:-ATμs προς ολιγον φαινομενη, και επειτα αφανιζομενη.—[Your life is even] “a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”

Antipodes. Gr.-"People on the opposite sides of the globe:" literally, “those who have their feet opposite to the feet of others."

Antiquarian.—"Relative to antiquities." "We must venerate Leland's undigested researches, as the first-fruits of antiquarian science among us." GOUGH.

N.B. GOUGH is one of the few authors who uniformly use this word as an adjective, which it is; and never as a substantive, which it is not. Antiquarian for antiquary is a downright confusion of speech, though SHENSTONE, BLACKSTONE, WALPOLE, BURKE, Professor REID, and even [that avower of his own studied correctness] Lord CHESTERFIELD, are guilty of it. No such blemish defaces the purer styles of LYTTELTON, ROBERTSON, or BRYANT.

Antiseptic. From the Greek.-"Good against putrefaction."
Antithesis. Gr.-"Opposition, contrast." 'The wicked flee when

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