| “I ritu a verse o na Molli o mi ne, Asta lassa me pole, a lædis o fine; I ne ver neu a niso ne at in mi ni is, A manat a glans ora sito fer diis. De armo lis abuti, hos face an hos nos is As fer a sal illi, as reddas aro sis, Ac is o mi Molli is almi de lite, Illo verbi de, an illo verbi nite.” |
At this the Dean settles the whole affair by—
| “Apud in is almi de si re, Mimis tres I ne ver re qui re; Alo’ ver I findit a gestis, His miseri ne ver at restis.” |
Sydney Smith proposed as a motto for a well-known fish-sauce purveyor the following line from Virgil (Æn. iv. I):
| “Gravi jamdudum saucia curâ.” |
When two students named Payne and Culpepper were expelled from college, a classmate wrote:
| “Pœnia perire potest; Culpa perennis est.” |
And Dr. Johnson wrote the following epitaph on his cat:
“Mi-cat inter omnes.”
A gentleman at dinner helped his friend to a potato, saying—“I think that is a good mealy one.” “Thank you,” was the reply, “it could not be melior.”