Other deities may have made Jupiter shake his head. Momus used to make him shake his sides.
Sequimur te, sancte deorum:
We follow thee, O sacred deity.
Namely, the aforesaid Momus. He is the only heathen god that we should have had much reverence for, and certainly the only one that we should ever have sacrificed to at all. The offering most commonly made to the god of laughter was, probably, a sacrifice of propriety.
But the above nouns are also used with these prepositions, a, ab, de, e, ex, inter, ante; as,
Primus inter philosophos Democritus est:
Democritus is the first amongst philosophers.
And why? Because he alone was wise enough to find out that laughing is better than crying. He it was who first proved to the world that philosophy and comicality are, in fact, one science; and that the more we learn the more we laugh. We forget whether it was he or Aristotle who made the remark, that man is the only laughing animal except the hyæna.
Secundus sometimes requires a dative case, as