Dictionary of quotations (classical) / by Thomas Benfield Harbottle.

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1897
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    ACCIPE NUNC—AD DAMNUM. Accipe nunc Danaum insidias, et crimine ab uno Disce omnis.” Virgil. JEneid, II., 65. “Now listeu while my tongue declares The tale you ask of Danaan snares, And gather from a single charge Their catalogue of crimes at large.”—(Conington.) Accipitri timidas credis, furiose, columbas ? Plenum montano credis ovile lupo ? ” Ovid. De Arte Amandi, II., 363. “Are you mad enough to trust the hawk with your timid doves, or the mountain wolf with the crowded sheepfold ? ” Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.” Horace. Satires, II., 2, 6. ‘ ‘ The mind inclined to what is false recoils from better things. ” Acerrima proximorum odia.” Tacitus. History, IV., 70. “No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.” Acherontis pabulum.” Plautus. Casma, Act II., Sc. I., 12.—(Cleostrata.) '£ Food for Acheron. ” Acribus initiis, incurioso fine.” Tacitus. Annals, VI., 17. “ Keen at the start, but careless at the end.” Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.” Ovid. Tristia, I., 2, 97. “ Nought that men do can e’er escape the gods.” Actum, aiunt, ne agas.” Terence. Phormio, Act II., Sc. III., 72.—(Demipho.) “ What is done let us leave alone.” “ Acta ne agamus ; reliqua paremus.” Cicero. Ad Atticum, IX., 6, 7. “Let us not go over the old ground, but rather prepare for what is to come.” Actutum fortunae solent mutarier. Varia vita est.” Plautus. Truculentus, Act II., Sc., I., 9.—(Astaphium.) “ Forsooth our fortunes are most variable. Life is full of change.” “ Ad auctores redit Sceleris coacti culpa.” Seneca. Troades, 880.—[Helena.) “ The blame falls on the instigators when a crime is committed under com- pulsion.” Ad damnum adderetur injuria.” Cicero. Pro Tullio, XVII., 41. “ That would be adding insult to injury.” “ Flagitio additis Damnum.” Horace. Odes, III., 5, 26. “ You are adding injury to infamy.” “ Quid facies tibi, Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam ? ” Phaedrus. Fables, V., 3, 4. “ What will you do to yourself, seeing that you are adding insul to injury ? ”