Oh, it is pleasant, as it is rare, to find the same arm linked in yours at forty, which at thirteen helped it to turn over the Cicero De Amicitia, or some tale of Antique Friendship, which the young heart even then was burning to anticipate!Co-Grecian with S. was Th, who has since executed with ability various diplomatic functions at the Northern courts.

Praeque subumbrata splendoris imagine tanti, Praeque illo meritis famosis nomine parto, Caetera, quae vecors, vti numina, vulgus adorat, Praedia, amicitias, armenta, peculia, nummos,

Phr. amicitia semper prodest [Lat.]

[Hare]; trulgus amicitias utilitate probat [Lat.]

In making Earl Cassimeere marry the deformed Cornelia and share his estate with her father, the author (as Laugbaine observed) has followed Lucian's story of Zenothemis and Menecrates (in "Toxaris, vel De Amicitia").

Amor et amicitia, which Scaliger exercitat.

Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.

For the first, which is love and hate, as Montanus saith, nulla firmior amicitia quam quae contrahitur hinc; nulla discordia major, quam quae a religione fit; no greater concord, no greater discord than that which proceeds from religion, it is incredible to relate, did not our daily experience evince it, what factions, quam teterrimae factiones, (as Rich.

De amicitia. 3429.

an quia non sum malus senex, ut tu facie rugosus, incurvus, &c. O demens, quid tibi videtur in vita boni? nimirum amicitias, caenas, &c. Longe melius non esurire quam edere; non sitire, &c. Gaude potius quod morbos et febres effugerim, angorem animi, &c. Ejulatus quid prodest quid lachryimae, &c. 3923.

Ex. singulis tribus fit charitas et amicitia, quae respicit deum et proximum. 4511.

Amicitia ut sol in mundo, &c. 4597.

Amor et amicitia.

I send also Cicero "De Amicitia," Brillat-Savarin's "Physiologie du Gout" the Works of Athenæus, and the "Banquet" of Plato.

[Vellum in amicitia erraremus.

This is the kind of teaching which we find illustrated in the book of Valerius Maximus, which has already been alluded to, who takes some special virtue or fine quality as the subject of most of his chapters,fortitudo, patientia, abstinentia, moderatio, pietas erga parentes, amicitia, and so on, and illustrates them by examples and stories drawn mainly from Roman history, partly also from Greek.

M. Tullii Ciceronis Cato Major, sive de Senectute; Laelius, sive de Amicitia; et Epistolas Selectae.

Orbus es, et locuples, et Bruto consule natus, Esse tibi veras credis amicitias? Sunt veræ: sed quas juvenis, quas pauper habebas: Qui novus est, mortem diligit ille tuam.

Vera Amicitia est sempiterna.

CICERO De Senectute and De Amicitia.

I have read to-day one canto of Dante's Inferno and eight or ten pages of Cicero de Amicitia.

[Vellum in amicitia erraremus.

'Sodisfando O Padre e amico nostro questa nostro brama, sarete caggione di unire in perpetua amicitia cotesti vostri Regni d'Europa al nostro dominante Imperio, e si abbracciranno le vostri leggi come l'edera abbraccia la pianta, e noi medesemi Spargeremo del nostro seme reale in coteste Provinci, riscaldando i letti di vostri Principi con il fuoco amoroso delle nostre Amazoni,

'Reges dicuntur multis urgere culullis Et torquere mero, quem perspexisse laborent, An sit amicitia dignus' Hor.

Principum amicitias.