But it does not alter the fact that this was an immense responsibility to take, and that the immediate onus of the war rests with Germany.

encumbrance, incumbrance^; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel^, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes^, incubus, old man of the sea; remora. difficulty &c 704; insuperable &c 471; obstacle; estoppel

of the "Purgatory" occurs the following striking passage: "Summus Pontificatus, si bene geritur, est summus honor, summum onus, summa servitus, summus labor.

Unicuique suum onus intolerabile videtur. 4071.

Fert humeris, venerabile onus, Cythereius heros Per Trojae flammas, densaque tela, patrem: Clamat et Argivis, vetuli, ne tangite; vita Exiguum est Marti, sed mihi grande, lucrum.