The Anatomy of Tobacco
Part treats of the manner, as was observed in Chapter I. of what I have already written. What precedes, therefore, is Absolute, and what succeeds Relative, which latter member may be further divided into the following categories:—
I. Substantia. II. Ubi. III. Quando. IV. Relatio.—Substance, Place, Time, and Relation.[1] And these categories
- ↑ And for the assistance of unfaithful memories in the following lines these categories are illustrated and exemplified:—
"Johannes tabacum tubulo nunc fumat ad horam
Nonam: nam cymbæ corpus mandatur et umbræ:
Spectat et in ripis spatiantes sæpe puellas."For in the first line we have Substantia "tabacum tubulo," and next Quando (Time), ad nonam horam, at 3 p.m.; thirdly, Ubi (Place), cymbæ et umbræ—in a boat, which is not exposed to the heat of the sun; fourthly, Relatio (Relation), Spectat et in ripis spatiantes sæpe puellas. And he often gazes at the girls strutting along the banks. To this last line it is objected that it is base Latinity, inasmuch as spatior is said to be appropriately applied when speaking of those who walk on their own property, but so much the more fitting it seems to me in the present case, since, though the river banks, doubtless, did not belong to these maidens, yet is it the custom of the female sex to walk alway with a certain insolence, and as if the whole "orbis terrarum" was subject to their pleasure.
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