ne exeat—(Latin) “let him not leave”; a legal writ forbidding a person to leave the jurisdiction of the court [(return)]
stiver—a Dutch coin worth almost nothing [(return)]
Roman father—Lucius Junius Brutus, legendary founder of the Roman republic, was said to have passed sentence of death on his two sons for participating in a rebellion. [(return)]
Veni; Vidi; Vici—(Latin) Julius Caesar’s terse message to the Senate announcing his victory over King Pharnaces II of Pontus in 47 B.C.: “I came, I saw, I conquered.” [(return)]
Orangeman—a member of the Orange Order, a militant Irish protestant organization founded in 1746 and named after William of Orange, who in 1688 deposed his father-in-law, Catholic King James II, became King William III, and helped establish protestant faith as a prerequisite for succession to the English throne. The Orange Order is still exists and remains rabidly anti-Catholic. [(return)]