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

Date:
1897
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Credit: Dictionary of quotations (classical) / by Thomas Benfield Harbottle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AD KALENDAS GRAECAS—ADEO FACILIUS. Ad Kalendas Graecas.” Augustus. (Suetonius, II., 87.) “ At the Greek Kalends.” “ Ad Graecas, bone rex, fient mandata Kalendas.” Queen Elizabeth. Reply to the envoys of Philip of Spain. “ Your commands, noble king, shall be obeyed at the Greek Kalends.” Ad majorem Dei gloriam.” Canones et Decreta Consilii Triclentini. “ To the greater glory of God.” Ad omnia alia aetate sapimus rectius ; Solum unnm hoc vitium senectus adfert hominibus ; Attentiores sumus ad rem omnes quam sat est.” Terence. Adelphi, Act V., Sc. III., 46.—(Micio.) “ In all matters else Increase of age increases wisdom in us ; This only vice age brings along with it; ‘ We’re all more worldly-minded than we need —(George Colman.) Ad quae noscenda iter ingredi, transmittere mare solemus, ea sub oculis posita negligemus.” Pliny the Younger. Letters, VIII., 20. “We are always ready to take a journey or to cross the seas for the pur- pose of seeing things to which, if they are put before our eyes, we pay no attention.” Ad tristem partem strenua est suspicio.” Publilius Syrus, 6. “ A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.” “ Ad unguem Factus homo.” Horace. Satires, I., 5, 32. “ A gentleman to the finger tips.” Ad vivendum velut ad natandum is melior qui onere liberior.” Apuleius. De Magia, XXI. “ He is the better equipped for life, as for swimming, who has the less to carry.” “ Adde Voltum habitumque hominis, quem tu vidisse beatus Non magni pendis, quia contigit.” Horace. Satires, II., 4, 91. “ Then the man’s look, his manner—these may seem Mere things of course, perhaps, in your esteem, So privileged as you are.”—(Conington.) Addito salis grano.” Pliny the Elder. Natural History, XXIII., 77. “ With the addition of a grain of salt.” (Hence, probably, the phrase, “ Cum grano salis''.) Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.” Quintilian. De Institutione Oratoria, I., 12, 7. “It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things, than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.”