Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Dii laboribus omnia vendunt—The gods sell all things to hard labour. Pr.

Dii majores et minores—Gods of a higher and lower degree.

Dii majorum gentium—The twelve gods of the 15 highest order.

Dii penates—Household gods.

Di irati laneos pedes habent—The gods when angry have their feet covered with wool. Pr.

Dii rexque secundent—May God and the king favour us. M.

Diis aliter visum—The gods have decreed otherwise. Virg.

Diis proximus ille est / Quem ratio, non ira 20 movet—He is nearest to the gods whom reason, not passion, impels. Claud.

Dilationes in lege sunt odiosæ—Delays in the law are odious. L.

Dilettantism, hypothesis, speculation, a kind of amateur-search for truth, toying and coquetting with truth; this is the sorest sin, the root of all imaginable sins. Carlyle.