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

Date:
1897
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    4i Anima est amica amanti; si abest, nullus est; Si adest, res nulla ’st, ipsus est nequam et miser.” Plautus. Bacchides, Act II., Sc. II., 16.—{Chrysallis.) 1 ‘ A mistress is a lover’s life and soul— He’s a mere nothing when she is away— And if she’s with him his estate will be As mere a nothing just, and he himself An inconsiderate wretch.”—(Bonnell Thornton.) “ Animae, quibus altera fato Corpora debentur, Lethaei ad fluminis undam Securos latices, et longa oblivia potant.” Virgil. JEneid, VI., 713. ‘ ‘ Those souls who for rebirth By Fate are destined, drink from Lethe’s stream Draughts of forgetfulness and long oblivion.” *l (Apros,) animal propter convivia natum.” Juvenal. Satires, I., 141. “ The boar, an animal for banquets born.” “ Animasque in volnere ponunt.” Virgil. Georgies, IV., 238.—{Of the bee.) “ They pierce and leave their lives within the wound.” “ Animi cultus ille erat ei quasi quidem humanitatis cibus.” Cicero. De Finibus, V., 19, 54. “ This mental culture was as it were food to his higher nature.” “ Animi est enim omnis actio, et imago animi vultus, indices oculi.” Cicero. De Oratore, III., 59, 221. All action is of the mind, and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.” “ Animo vidit, ingenio complexus est, eloquentia illuminavit.” Velleius Paterculus. Historia Romana, II., 66. —{Of Cicero.) “ His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.” “ Animula vagula, blandula, Hospes comesque corporis, Quae nunc abibis in loca ; Pallidula, rigidula, nudula, Nec, ut soles, dabis jocos.” Hadrian. {Aelius Spartianus, Hadriani Vita.) “ Little, gentle, wandering soul, Guest and comrade of the body, Who departest into space, Naked, stiff and colourless, All thy wonted jests are done.” “ (Ut facile intelligi possit) Animum et videre et audire, non eas partes quae quasi fenestrae sint animi.” Cicero. Tusculanae Disputationes, I,, 20, 46. It is the soul which sees and hears ; not those parts of the body which are, in a sense, the windows of the soul.”