And I can say it with St. Columban, Totum, dicere volui in breve, totem non potui.

Let him never forget the words of Balthazar Gracian: lo bueno si breve, dos vezes buenogood work is doubly good if it is short.

Virgil not only implies, he often clearly states, the original epic values of life, the Homeric values; as in the famous: Stat sua cuique dies; breve et inreparabile tempus Omnibus est vitae: sed famam extendere factis, Hoc virtutis opus.[10]

Concluída esta breve introducción histórica, el héroe de la fiesta guardó silencio durante algunos segundos como para coordinar sus recuerdos, y prosiguió así: Pues es el caso, que en aquel tiempo remote, esta villa y algunas otras formaban parte del patrimonio de un noble barón, cuyo castillo señorial se levantó por muchos siglos sobre la cresta de un peñasco que baña el Segre, del cual toma su nombre.

Ya en él despacháronse cuatro emisarios, que en representacion de la atribulada villa hiciesen presente el caso al conde de Urgel y al arzobispo, los que no tardaron muchos días en tornar con la resolución de estos personajes, resolución que, como suele decirse, era breve y compendiosa.

breve, short, brief; en-s palabras, in a few words.

sapper, of breve, very (or most) brief.

[Footnote 56: The allusion to the childish girl (pargoletta) or any other fleeting vanity, "O altra vanità con sì breve use," is not handsome.

Addison. 'Divisum sic breve fiet Opus.' Mart.

"Jeffy must have received a semi-breve as his portion," I thought, for he was rapt in ecstasy.

Sanborn says, "The breve distinguishes a short syllable; as, m~anner.

Parker and Fox say, "The Breve (thus ~) is placed over a vowel to indicate its short sound; as, St. H~elena.

The breve (~) over a syllable, denotes that it is short; as, d~etr=áct."Chandler's Common School Gram., p. 189.

"In prosody, long syllables are distinguished by the macron (¯); and short ones by what is called the breve (~)."Bucke cor.

The breve is properly a mark of short quantity, only when it is set over an unaccented syllable or an unemphatic monosyllable, as it often is in the scanning of verses.

The name breve, from the French brève, (which latter word came, doubtless, originally from the neuter of the Latin adjective brevis, short,) is now pretty generally applied to the one; and the Greek term macron, long, (also originally a neuter adjective,) is perhaps as common as any name for the other.

S. S. Greene calls them "the long sound," and "the breve or short sound.

W. Allen says, "The long-syllable mark, (=) and the breve, or short-syllable mark, (~) denote the quantity of words poetically employed.

On account of the different uses made of the breve, the macron, and the accents, one grammarian has proposed a new mode of marking poetic quantities.

Il contrabbassista moderno; breve sunto sullo studio teorico-practico degli armonici-coznizioni utili al contrabbassista d'orchestra.

Saint genes; ou, La vie breve.

la mia ninfa accoglia Dopo brevi preghiere e servir breve: E siano

The finest lines in the play Amiam: che 'l sol si muore, e poi rinasce; A noi sua breve luce S' asconde, e 'l sonno eterna notte adduce(Coro I.) belong to Catullus: Viuamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus;... soles occidere et redire possunt; nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.

For vowels with a breve: [)a], [)e], [)i], [)o], [)u].

Un breve resumen del acto.