The writ which is called “Fieri Facias” will be made.
Fi. fa. is a legal instrument that deprives a poor man of his mattress that a rich one may lounge on his ottoman. Ca. Sa. is a similar benevolent contrivance for punishing misfortune as felony.
Dīus, heavenly, has the first syllable long;—Diana, common: and so has the interjection Ohe!
Thus there’s a common medium of connexion,
Between a goddess and an interjection.
A vowel before another in Greek words is sometimes long, as
Cærula, Pīerides, sunt vobis tegmina crurum:
Oh, Muses, your stockings are blue.
Also in Greek possessives, as
Somniculosa fuit, pinguisque Ænēia nutrix: