Vitia otil negotio discutienda sunt. Lat. SENECA.-"The vices of sloth are only to be shaken off by business." The mind will rust and canker without employment.

Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis. Lat. OVID.-"When the mind is ill at ease, the body is to a certain degree affected." The converse of this proposition may with equal justice be asserted.

-Vitiis nemo sine nascitur; optimus ille est,
Qui minimis urgetur.

Lat. HORACE.--

"No one is born without faults; the best man is he who has the smallest share of them.'

'Now-we have all our vices, and the best
Is he who with the fewest is oppressed."
-Vitium commune omnium est

Quod nimium ad rem in senecta attenti sumus.

Lat. TERENCE.

"It is a fault that is common to all, that in advanced age, as we grow older, we are too much attached to our property." As prodigality is proverbially said to be the fault of youth, so is avarice that of later years.

Vitium fuit, nunc mos est, adsentatio. Lat. PUBLIUS SYRUS.— "Flattery, which was formerly a vice, is now grown into a custom." So familiar has it become that it no longer provokes our detestation.

Viva voce. Lat.-"By the living voice, by word of mouth." 66 А viva voce examination:" that is, an examination by word of mouth, an oral examination.

-Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam,

Rusticus exspectat, dum defluat amnis. Lat. HORACE."He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits till the river shall have passed away." He defers his reformation to a period which can never arrive.

Vivendum recte, cum propter plurima, tum his
Praecipue causis; ut linguas mancipiorum
Contemnas-nam lingua mali pars pessima servi.
Lat. JUVENAL.

"You should live virtuously for many reasons, but particularly on this account, that you may be able to despise the tongues of your domestics. The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant."

Vivida vis animi. Lat.-"The strong force of the mind, vivid or glowing energy of mind, fervor of imagination." The lively impetus of genius.

Vivit post funera virtus. Lat.—“Virtue survives the grave.”
Vivite felices, quibus est fortuna peracta

Jam sua.

Lat. VIRGIL.—

"May those be happy whose fortunes are already completed." Though struggling through life, I can without envy see those whose efforts have experienced a successful termination.

Vivitur exiguo melius-natura beatis

Omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti. Lat. CLAUDIAN.

"Men live best upon a little. Nature has granted to all to be happy, if the use of her gifts were but properly known." Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urguentur, ignotique longa

Nocte, carent quia vate sacro. "Before great Agamemnon reigned,

Lat. HORACE.—

Reigned kings as great as he, and brave,
Whose huge ambition's now contained

In the small compass of a grave;

In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown:
No bard had they to make all time their own.

A beautiful illustration of the value of poetry, in consecrating and embalming the deeds of virtue and of valor.

Vocabula artis. Lat.-"Professional terms, words, or expressions: jaw-breaking words."

Volenti non fit injuria. Lat. Law maxim.-"To one who willingly embarks in any cause, or willingly gives his assent to any measure, no injury is done." No one can complain of wrong in a proceeding, when the measure had his previous assent.

Voluptates commendat rarior usus. Lat. JUVENAL."Our pleasures have a higher relish when they are but rarely used." The keenest sense of pleasure is blunted by a too frequent repetition.

Volventibus annis. Lat.-"In the course of years." Vox et praeterea nihil. Lat.-"A voice and nothing more. more." An empty and unavailing sound; a fine speech without matter; a mere display of words; mere moonshine.

Vox faucibus haesit. Lat. VIRGIL.-"My voice stuck in my throat." Spoken by a person struck dumb with amazement.

Vox populi. Lat.-"The voice of the people, the popular voice." Vox populi vox Dei. Lat.-"The voice of the people is the voice of GOD."

Vox Stellarum. Lat.-"The voice of the stars." "Moore's Almanac, the scandal of the respectable company of Stationers, is still sold by the Stationers at their Hall, with Vox Stellarum for the first words on the title-page."

Vraisemblance. Fr.-"Probability or likelihood.” good deal of vraisemblance in the circumstances."

"There is a

Vulnus alit venis, et caeco carpitur igni. Lat. VIRGIL.-" She [or he] nourishes the poison in the veins, and is consumed by the hidden fire." Applied very frequently to a secret passion, where, according to our immortal bard,

"Concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,

Feeds on the damask cheek."

Vultus est index animi. Lat. prov.-"The countenance is the index or portraiture of the mind." So say the disciples of Lavater; but, like other general rules, it is liable to many exceptions.

Vultus instantis tyranni. Lat. HORACE.-"The stern gaze or

look of the threatening tyrant." In other words, the stern and ruthless tyrant himself. "One terrible presence, one active mischief, vultus instantis tyranni, is mercifully withdrawn from us."

Z.

Zollverein. German.—The Prusso-Germanic Customs League. Zonam perdidit. Lat. HORACE.-"He has lost his purse." He is desperate through the want of money.

INDEX.

***In this Index only the principal words, or those most likely to be remembered, in the
several quotations, will be found, and the initial words are all omitted, as the quotations are
arranged in alphabetical order.

Two (or more) words should always be looked out in the Index, when they occur in many
pages of the work.