Adeps viridis est summum bonum:
Green fat is the chief good.
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Even among the ancients, turtles were the emblems of love; which, next to eating and drinking, has always been the first object of human pursuit. This fact proves, very satisfactorily, two things, first, their proficiency in the science of gastronomy; and, secondly, their extreme susceptibility of the tender passion.
Pileus vocatur tegula:
A hat is called a tile.
Likewise all verbs in a manner admit after them an adjective, which agrees with the nominative case of the verb, in case, gender, and number, as
Pii orant taciti. —Eton Gram.
The pious pray silently.
Is this a sly rap at the Quakers?