On the front of the house of Auchinleck is this inscription: 'Quod petis, hic est; Est Ulubris; animus si te non deficit aequus[1035].'

It is characteristick of the founder; but the animus aequus is, alas!

Est Ulubris, animus si te non deficit oequus.

Otiosus animus nescit quid volet: An idle person (as he follows it) knows not when he is well, what he would have, or whither he would go, Quum illuc ventum est, illinc lubet, he is tired out with everything, displeased with all, weary of his life: Nec bene domi, nec militiae, neither at home nor abroad, errat, et praeter vitam vivitur, he wanders and lives besides himself.

[6069] "Saepe etenim oculuit picta sese hydra sub herba, Sub specie formae, incauto se saepe marito Nequam animus vendit," He that marries a wife that is snowy fair alone, let him look, saith

Quid dubius hæret animus usque adeo?

He wrote to Mrs. Thrale on Aug. 14, 1780:'But what if I am seventy-two; I remember Sulpitius says of Saint Martin (now that's above your reading), Est animus victor annorum, et senectuti cedere nescius.

What is really new and astonishing is that it should have been possible for a conservative Roman like Varro, in that age of carelessness and doubt, to bring the heaven-god, so to speak, down to the Roman Capitol, where his statue was to be seen sitting between Juno and Minerva, and yet to teach the doctrine that he was the same deity as the Jewish Jehovah, and that both were identical with the Stoic animus mundi.