esse, testante sacro eloquio, scimus Angelos,
Archangelos, Virtutes, Potestates, Principatus,
Dominationes, Thronos, Cherubim, atque Seraphim.—St.
Gregory the Great,
Homily
34.
(See Hymns Ancient and Modern, No. 253, ver. 2, 3.)
Anger ... the Alphabet. It was Athenodo'rus the Stoic who advised Augustus to repeat the alphabet when he felt inclined to give way to anger.
Un certain Grec disait à l'empereur Auguste,
Comme une instruction utile autant que juste,