In his own person he had experienced the dangers of the vita activa against which The Golden Fleece is a warning.

" The Persian kings are not so jovial as he is, O festus dies hominis, O happy day; so Chaerea exclaims when he came from Pamphila his sweetheart well pleased, "Nunc est profecto interfici cum perpeti me possem, Ne hoc gaudium contaminet vita aliqua aegritudine.

Tanti uomini, he says, che in terra hanno voluto gustare vita celeste, dissero con una voce, "ecce elongavi fugiens et mansi in solitudine"those who in this world have desired a foretaste of the divine life, have always proclaimed with one voice: Lo! then would I wander far off; I would lodge in the wilderness.

I have striven to fold it up, and lay it by in the arbor-vitae chest of memory, with myrrh and camphor, but it will not be exorcised.

Addison 'Sic vita erat: facile omnes perferre ac pati: Cum quibus erat cunque una, his sese dedere, Eorum obsequi studiis: advorsus nemini; Nunquam præponens se aliis: Ita facillime Sine invidia invenias laudem.' Ter.

Id arbitror Adprime in vita esse utile, ne quid nimis.' Ter.

Omni opportunitate profitebatur disciplinam, quam Jesus Christus ore et vita expressit, unice tranquillitatem dare menti.

Accepting it provisionally, we arrive at the remarkable result that all the chief known constituents of the crust of the earth may have formed part of living bodies; that they may be the "ash" of protoplasm; that the "rupes saxei" are not only "temporis," but "vitae filiae"; and, consequently, that the time during which life has been active on the globe may be indefinitely greater than the period,

"Cujus vita fulgur, ejus verba tonitrua""if a man's life be lightning, his words will be thunders."

and many neoterics are of the same mind: Celsus adviseth him therefore that will continue his health, to have varium vitae genus, diversity of callings, occupations, to be busied about, [3200] "sometimes to live in the city, sometimes in the country; now to study or work, to be intent, then again to hawk or hunt, swim, run, ride, or exercise himself."

Contentus videlicet vita libera, remota a turbis, studiisque porro percolendis unice impensa, ubi non cogeretur alia dicere et simulare, alia sentire et dissimulare: affectuum studiis rapi, regi.

Hominibus vitas finis mors, non autem superstitionis, profert haec suos terminos ultra vitae finem. 6548.

[Footnote 7: "O vita nostra, debole e fallace!"

Vita omnis scena est ludusque: aut ludere disce Seria seponens, aut mala dura pati.

Crucifixum deum ignominiose Lucianus vita peregrin.

In vita philosophus, in Epigram, amator, in Epistolis petulanus, in praeceptis severus.

[Horace]; honesta mors turpi vita potior [Lat.]

I received notice of Latin declamation with Myers: subject agreed on, "Utrum civitati plus utilitatis an incommodi afferant leges quae ad vitas privatorum hominum ordinandas pertinent"; I took the former.

In the latter he is 'vita vivificans, principium spiritualis, id est, veræ reproductionis in vitam veram'.