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66, 12.Phocas one of the favourite grammars of the middle ages:—
"Omnia cum veterum sint explorata libellis,
Multa loqui breviter sit novitatis opus."
67, 3.De Vetula erroneously assigned to Ovid; the passages quoted run as follows:—
""Omnes declinant ad ea, quæ lucra ministrant,
Utque sciant discunt pauci, plures ut abundent;
Sic te prostituunt, O virgo Scientia! sic te
Venalem faciunt castis amplexibus aptam,
Non te propter te quærentes, sed lucra per te,
Ditarique volunt potius, quam philosophari.
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Sic Philosophia
Exilium patitur, et Philopecunia regnat."
69, 23.Perihermenias; the De Interpretatione of Aristotle; called by this name in the Middle Ages.
70, 1.with baneful haste and a harmful diploma, "dispendioso compendio damnosoque diplomate."
70, 8.papal provisions; the Statute of Provisors, 1350, was directed against this practice.
70, 11.building up Sion in blood cp. Micah iii. 10.
71, 4.and reacheth from end to end, etc., cp. Wisdom viii. i.
71, 14.so her soldiery are unmanned and languishing. This was written a year or two before the battle of Creçy.
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73, 12.lynx-eyed "oculis lynceis"; the phrase originally referred to Lynceus, the Argonaut, who was famed for the keenness of his vision, then it was transferred to the lynx, and gave rise to the fable that it could see through a wall.
