moriam relinquunt. Lat. TACITUS.-"A bitter jest, when the satire comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it." This experiment is always dangerous; but particularly when the shaft is leveled against high authorities. Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum. Lat. CLAUDIAN. "Nothing is more harsh than a low man, when raised to a certain height." Aspettare, e non venire, Stare in letto, e non dormire, Servire, e non gradire, Son tre cose da far morire. Ital. prov. "To expect one who does not come, to lie in bed and not to sleep, to serve and not to be advanced, are three things enough to kill a man.' Assai ben balla a chi Fortuna suona. Ital. prov.—“He dances well, to whom Fortune pipes." Assez y a, si trop n'y a. Old Fr. prov.-"There is enough, if there be not too much." Too much of one thing is good for nothing. Enough is as good as a feast. Assidua stilla saxum excavat. Lat. prov.-“ A continual dropping of water hollows out a stone." Compare OVID: Quid magis est durum saxo? Quid mollius unda? Dura tamen molli saxa cavantur aqua. That is, "What is harder than stone? what softer than water? and yet hard stones, stones hard though they are, are, in process of time, made hollow by the falling of water on them.” -Assiduo labuntur tempora motu Non secus ac flumen. Neque enim consistere flumen, Tempora sic fugiunt pariter, pariterque sequuntur; "With constant motion as the moments glide, Assignat. Fr.—The paper money of France after the Revolution of the last century. Is there a debt which presses them, issue assignats." BURKE. 66 Assistance obligée. Fr.-"Legal relief," to the poor. Assisto divinis. Lat. HORACE.-"I stop [in the course of my morning walk] to observe the fortune-tellers in the pursuit of their craft, or, I stop to consult the itinerant diviners [who kept a kind of shop for the sale of oracles]." The Roman Catholics make use of an expression somewhat similar to the "assisto divinis" of Horace: they say that they "assist at mass," that is, they "stand by and look on at mass," when they attend the service of the Romish Church. CREECH, from whom better things might have been expected, most absurdly translated the expression, "I go to Church and pray:" thus raising ideas in the mind of the reader to which there was nothing correspondent in the religious services of Rome. Assumpsit. Lat. Law term.-"He assumed, he took upon him to pay." An action on a verbal promise. Astra regunt homines, sed regit astra Deus. Lat.-"The stars govern men, but GOD governs the stars." This forms a proper answer to the self-dubbed professors of judicial astrology. Avvua. Gr." Dejection, sadness, despondency, melancholy, the exhaustion of all energy [in-working, mental activity], of all vitality of the soul; the exhaustion of the heart." "This feeling is melancholy, despondency, or, in the much more powerful expression of the Greek, it is avvia." Attaché. Fr.—“One of the higher class of subordinates of an embassy, or representative mission." The plural is attachés. Au contraire. Fr.-"On the contrary, on the other hand." Au courant. Fr.-"Aware of, acquainted with, familiar with." "It is his office to keep the King au courant of all that appears in modern literature." Au désespoir. Fr.-"Driven to despair, in a state of despondency." Au fait. Fr.-"Up to the mark." "On these points he is quite au fait." "He is au fait in the whole matter." Au fond. Fr.-"To the bottom." "I know the man au fond." I thoroughly understand his character. Au jour la journée. Fr.-"From hand to mouth." Au pied de la lettre. Fr.-"Literally." Au pis aller. Fr.-" At the worst." Let the worst come to the worst. Au plus debile la chandelle à la main. Fr. prov.-"He that is worst may still hold the candle." Au regnard endormi rien ne cheut en la gueule. Old Fr. prov. "When the fox is asleep, nothing falls into his mouth.” Au sérieux. Fr.—“Seriously, in a serious manner.” Au naturel. Fr.-"In its, or their, natural state." Au reste. Fr.-"In addition to this, besides, moreover." Au revoir. Fr.-"Good-bye, farewell." Au royaume des aveugles les borgnes sont rois. Fr. prov."In blindmen's land those who are blessed with one eye are kings." N.B. This French proverb is very often quoted incorrectly, thus, Dans le pays, &c., instead of as above. Auch weiber wussten zu schweigen. German.-"Even the women knew how to be silent, to keep their tongues to themselves." "There is no instance upon record of any Tyrolian being induced to turn traitor for a bribe; and, says BARTHOLDY, Auch weiber, &c.'" 6 Auctor pretiosa facit. Lat. OVID.-"The giver makes the gift more precious.' Aucune institution humaine ne peut subsister, si elle n'est basée sur un sentiment, une vertu. Fr.-"No human institution can stand, unless grounded on some one feeling or virtue of our nature." Audaces fortuna juvat, timidosque repellit. Lat.-"Fortune favors, or assists, the bold, but abandons, repels, the timid, the coward." Intrepidity will often succeed under circumstances in which timidity may produce a failure. Audax omnia perpeti Gens humana ruit per vetitum et nefas. Lat. HORACE."Daring to every extent of guilt, the human race rush onward in their mad career, setting at defiance all laws both human and divine." This often forms a motto to some discourse or invective against the wickedness of the age. Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget. Lat. JUVENAL."Dare to do something worthy of transportation and imprisonment, if you mean to be of consequence. Honesty is praised, but starves." This is applied to the success of intrepid villainy, whilst virtue finds only a cold approbation. "Dare nobly, man! if greatness be thy aim, And practice what may chains and exile claim: [While crimes, in scorn of niggard fate, afford The plain sober prose of these four lines is, "It is to their crimes that these great men [!] are indebted for their gardens, their palaces, their tables, their fine old plate, &c."-A sentence peculiarly pregnant with meaning at the present time [1857]. A pamphlet was published some time ago with the title, "Whom shall we hang?" A very appropriate one might now be written with a slight change in the title, "Whom shall we trust?” Audendo magnus tegitur timor. Lat. LUCAN.-"Fear is often concealed by a show of daring." The coward blusters to disguise his terrors. Audentes fortuna juvat. Lat. VIRGIL.-"Fortune assists the bold." Intrepidity will generally insure success. Audi alteram partem. Lat.-"Hear the other party, hear the other side of the question, hear what the other disputant has to say for himself." Listen to what is said on both sides, and then judge impartially. Audita querela. Law phrase.-"The complaint being heard." A writ, which lies where a person has any thing to plead, without having a day in court to make his plea. Auditoria. Lat.-"Schools, professors' lecture-rooms, auditories, or assemblies of those that hear." N.B. "Auditorium" is the singular of "Auditoria." Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. Lat. TACITUS.-"TO ravage, to murder, and to plunder is speciously called reigning, bearing kingly or imperial sway: and when monarchs through their blood thirsty commanders desolate, lay waste, a country, they dignify their atrocity by calling it MAKING PEACE." See "A cuspide corona." "There are crimes," says the DUKE DE LA ROCHE FOUCAULT, "which be come innocent, and even glorious, through their splendor, number, and excess: hence it is that public theft is called address; and to seize unjustly on provinces is to make conquests." Aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben. Ger. prov.-"Delayed, deferred, put off [for a time], is not lost, rejected, denied." Putting one off does not necessarily imply refusal. Augusta Trinobantum. Lat.—The designation of “LONDON” by the ancient Romans. Aujourd'hui roi, demain rien. Fr. prov.-Literally, “To-day a king, to-morrow nothing." To-day me, to-morrow thee. Aula regia. Lat.-"The Court; the Monarch's court; Court of the Sovereign." Aula regis. Lat.-"The king's court." A court which in former times accompanied the king, wherever he traveled. This was the original of the present Court of King's Bench. Aumônier du roi. Fr.-The "king's almoner [distributor of his charities, charitable gifts].” Aunque seas prudente y viejo, No desdeñes el consejo. Span. prov. "Old or young, wise or foolish, it matters not; disdain not [to take] advice." Aunque vistays á la mona de seda, mona se queday. Span. prov. "An ape is an ape, a varlet's a varlet, Though clothed in silk or clothed in scarlet." Aurea mediocritas. Lat. HORACE.-"The golden mean." The happy intermediate state between pomp and poverty. See "Apiorov μετρον. ""Give me," says AGUR, "neither poverty, nor riches:" PROVERBS xxx. 8. Compare also HESIOD: Kaipos ɛni naoi apotos: "Moderation is, under all circumstances, the best thing imaginable." 66 AGUR's prayer," says COLTON, "will ever be the prayer of the wise. Our incomes should be like our shoes: if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but, if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. But wealth, after all, is a relative thing: since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have, but upon what we would have; a tub was large enough for DIOGENES [the celebrated CYNIC philosopher]," "but a world was too little for ALEXANDER [the GREAT]." Auream quisquis mediocritatem Sordibus tecti, caret invidenda Sobrius aula. Lat. HORACE. "Whoever makes choice of the golden mean, safe from all the ills of poverty, is not compelled to dwell amid the wretchedness of some miserable abode: while, on the other hand, moderate in his desires, he needs not the splendid palace, the object of envy." "The man, within the golden mean Where sordid want and sorrow dwell, Aureo hamo piscari. Lat. prov.-"To fish, angle, with a golden hook." With money one may do almost every thing. Aureola. Lat." A halo [circle] of glory, rays of glory." "Around thine ample brow, oft as thy sweet countenance rises upon the darkness. I fancy a tiara [a hat with a large high crown, turban, diadem, crown] of light or a gleaming aureola in token of thy premature intellectual grandeur [greatness, gorgeousness]." DE QUINCEY. Auréole. Fr.-The same meaning as "Aureola." Auri sacra fames. Lat. VIRGIL.- "The accursed thirst for, or after, gold." See "Quid non mortalia, &c." Auribus tenemus lupum. Lat.-"We hold a wolf by the ears." "It is something beyond the ordinary necessity imposed on conquest which now impels us onward. Auribus tenemus lupum. We have got a powerful and ferocious beast in our clutches; which we have vainly tried to tame, and which we can neither conveniently hold nor safely let go." If we quit our hold, he will destroy us, yet we shall not be able long to retain him. Aurora amica musarum. Lat. prov.-"The morning, early morning, is friendly to, favorable to, study, the cultivation of the intellect, of learning." Aurora Borealis. Lat.-"The Northern lights." So called from being peculiar to the more northern latitudes. The appearances of the Aurora come under four different descriptions. 1st, A horizontal light, like the break of day. 2dly, Fine, slender, luminous beams of dense light. 3dly, Flashes pointing upward, or in the same direction with the beams, which they always succeed. 4thly, Arches, nearly in the form of a rainbow. “The north pole is the holy mountain of the Eastern nations, the fabulous Meru of the Hindoos, the Kaf of the Arabian mythologists, and perhaps the real prototype of the Grecian Olympus." Aurum e stercore. Lat.-"Gold from dung." Valuable knowledge extracted from literary rubbish. Aurum omnes, victa pietate, colunt. Lat. PROPERTIUS.-" All men now worship gold, all other reverence being done away." So venal is the age become, that nothing is respected but wealth and its possessors. Aurum per medios ire satellites, Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius Lat. HORACE. "Gold loves to make its way through the midst of guards and attendants, and, more powerful than thunder, it forces a passage through the strongest barriers, through the hardest rocks, through stone walls." "Stronger than thunder's wingéd force |