The brief biography of Vergil contained in the Berne MS.a document of doubtful valuementions Epidius as Vergil's teacher in rhetoric, and adds that Octavius, the future emperor, was a fellow pupil.

IV THE "CIRIS" It was at about this same time, 48 B.C., that Vergil began to write the Ciris, a romantic epyllion which deserves far more attention than it has received, not only as an invaluable document for the history of the poet's early development, but as a poem possessing in some passages at least real artistic merit.

The ninth Catalepton, like most eulogistic verse thrown off at high speed, has few good lines (indeed it was probably never finished), but it is exceedingly interesting as a document in Vergil's life.

So there are three kinds of doubts which can give rise to a dispute with respect to every written document; ambiguity of expression, discrepancy between the expression and the intention, and also written documents opposed to the one in question.

She fixed her eyes thoughtfully on the document which she held in her hand, and a strong temptation came to her.

" "Have you any suspicion as to the nature of the document?" "I thought it might be a will; but, if so, I can't understand why a delay of six months should have been interposed.

It appears from the document that the gain on trade of the American Fur Company, from 1824 to 1827, was $167,000.

This document consists of an ancient French journal, of daily events during the siege of the fort of Detroit by that redoubtable chief and his confederates in 1763.

That part of the document which purports to recite my official instructions is strictly correct; that which is avowedly unofficial and unauthorized, it can hardly be necessary for me to say, in view of the documents already before the Senate, does not convey a correct impression of my "views and wishes.

" There is a remarkable official document from General Eppes, the officer in command, to be found in the "Richmond Enquirer" for September 6, 1831.

Scuda saw the name of the emperor, and read the first lines, without remarking the date of the document.

The humanity of the document is perfectly of a piece with that of the system which would civilize mankind by making merchandize of them.

The renderings of the words for certain sins are not always definite or exact, because we do not know the precise idea which the framer of this remarkable document had.

Mus., No. 9900; this document belongs to the XVIIIth dynasty.]

Another is a Bull attributed to Pope Stephanus II., also dated 755, in which is described the ceremony of consecrating the church of St. Sauveur, attached to the abbey, which in the first-mentioned document Pepin is said to have founded.

Two English captains who took Figeac by surprise (a document relating to this event, written in Latin of the fourteenth century, is to be found in the municipal archives) were named Bertrand de Lebret and Bertrand de Lasale.

Now Mr. Collier, in the "Annals of the Stage," after extended remarks upon the importance of the document, merely says, "This remarkable paper has, perhaps, never seen the light from the moment it was presented, until it was recently discovered."

Thus he says, that whoever will compare the fac-similes of the document known as "The Certificate of the Blackfriars Players" with those which he gives of two passages in the folio "will surely entertain no doubt that one hand wrote both.

"[T] He expresses also the same confidence that "there can be but one intelligent opinion" that another important document, known as "The Blackfriars Petition," was, as Mr. Hamilton believes, "executed by the same hand" as that to which we owe the Certificate, and, consequently, the folio readings.[U] Again, with regard to another of these documents, known as "The Daborne Warrant," Dr. Ingleby says,"Mr.

"And now, Colonel, read the letter upon which our sentence is principally based,that traitorous document which you and our patriotic postmaster arrested.

Now, at the time of this calculation, everything must have borne a greater price, reckoning by money, than at the time of Domesday; for the prices of articles now set down (from an authentic document of the accounts of the Duke of Cornwall, first published from the original by Sir R.C. Hoare, in his History of Mere,) bear date somewhat more than two hundred years afterwards, in the reign of Edward the First, 1299.

I would therefore respectfully urge you to furnish me with some document which will bear testimony to the success of my mission, and demonstrate the excellent decision at which you have arrived.

She was, moreover, induced to consent to the publication of this document; and thus armed the astute Jesuit returned to Court, where he received the acknowledgments of De Luynes, coupled with renewed promises of favour and support.

[64:] We have confirmation of this from a document of the early part of the ninth century, which says: "De Vicariis et

Prior to the issue of a writ, the owner of documents and letters may destroy them, if he pleasesthe fact of his having done so, if litigation should ensue on the subject to which the destroyed documents related, being only matter for commentbut the moment a writ is issued the destruction by a defendant of any document in his possession relating to the action is a grave contempt, for which a duchess was lately sent to prison.