said the Marquis. "Not doubting the integrity of my judge, I have never doubted the success of my cause before him."
Enchanted with this new quotation, the councillor cried:
"And you have done well, young man; my voice will be solitary; but thus it will protest more forcibly against a judgment that I shall regard as unjust, if it goes against you, as I fear it will. Adieu, then. . . . Day after to-morrow we pronounce on your cause . . . and may the gods be favorable to you! As for me, by Castor! I know what I have to do"—and the doctor brought this conversation to a close by another quotation:
"'Ast vocat officium; trabe rupta, Bruttia saxa
Prendit amicus inops; remque omnem surdaque vota
Condidit Ionio! . . .'"[17]
[2]Who is not ashamed to live like a Natta.
[3]With what cares is man occupied! Oh, what vanity in life!. . .
[4]Mark this day, Macrinus, with a propitious stone.
[5]Do not doubt, the gods have wished to unite us by certain affinities, and that we should be guided by the same constellation.
[6]Oh that I could bring to the temple this offering, even barley will suffice to make my prayer heard.
[7]Each one his own taste; no one resembles the other; one prefers to grow fat by the pleasures of the table and of sleep; another prefers the hardships of the chase.