Mollitos mores non sinit esse viri.
The faithful study of the fistic art
From mawkish softness guards a Briton’s heart.
INGENUAS PUGNI DIDICISSE FIDELITER ARTES
MOLLITOS MORES NON SINIT ESSE VIRI.
Who can doubt it? But, besides, we have much to say in praise of boxing. In the first place, it is a classical accomplishment. To say nothing of the Olympic and Isthmian Games, which are of themselves sufficient proof of the elegant and fanciful tastes of the ancients; we need only allude to the fact, that the Corinthians are universally celebrated for their proficiency in this science. Then, of its eminently social tendency, there can be no doubt. What can be more conducive to good fellowship, and conviviality than the frequent tapping of claret, attendant both on its study and practice? Nor can its beneficial influence on the fine arts be called in question, seeing that its immediate object is to teach us the use of our hands. And (which perhaps is the most pursuasive argument of all), it is particularly pleasing to the fair sex, who besides their well known admiration of bravery, are, to a woman, devotedly attached to the ring.
Sometimes an adverb with a genitive case stands in the place of the nominative, as—
Partim astutorum mordebantur,
Part of the knowing ones were bit.