The ink-pots had all been collected, and stood together in a tray on the master's table; fragments of examination papers filled the paper-basket, and were littered here and there about the floor, while some promising Latin scholar had scrawled across the blackboard the well-known words, Dulce Domum.

Sed super hæc, tenent pro grauiori admisso mingere intra domum quæ inhabitatur, et qui de tanto crimine proclamaretur assuetus, mitteretur ad mortem.

Et si peccatum deturpationis habitaculi venerit in publicum, oportebit reconciliari domum per sacerdotem, priusquam vllus audebit intrare.

rogas? Qui tandem?Taedet rientionis, quae mihi Ubi domum adveni ac sedi, extemplo savium Dat jejuna anima.

So [2503]he complained in the poet, "Domum revertor moestus, atque animo fere Perturbato, atque incerto prae aegritudine, Assido, accurrunt servi: succos detrahunt, Video alios festinare, lectos sternere, Coenam apparare, pro se quisque sedulo Faciebant, quo illam mihi lenirent miseriam.

"A woman and death are two the bitterest things in the world:" uxor mihi ducenda est hodie, id mihi visus est dicere, abi domum et suspende te.

If she have children, and thy state be not good, though thou be wary and circumspect, thy charge will undo thee,foecunda domum tibi prole gravabit, thou wilt not be able to bring them up, "and what greater misery can there be than to beget children, to whom thou canst leave no other inheritance but hunger and thirst?"

Now for such as have free liberty to bestow themselves, I could wish that good counsel of the comical old man were put in practice, "Opulentiores pauperiorum ut filias Indotas dicant uxores domum: Et multo fiet civitas concordior, Et invidia nos minore utemur, quam utimur.

And howsoever though it were all troubles, utilitatis publicae causa devorandum, grave quid libenter subeundum, it must willingly be undergone for public good's sake, "Audite (populus) haec, inquit Susarion, Malae sunt mulieres, veruntamen O populares, Hoc sine malo domum inhabitare non licet.

[6097]So did Lucretia, a lady of Senae, after she had but seen Euryalus, in Eurialum tota ferebatur, domum reversa, &c., she would not hold her eyes off him in his presence, [6098]tantum egregio decus enitet ore, and in his absence could think of none but him, odit virum, she loathed her husband forthwith, might not abide him:

Omni tempore Socratem eodem vultu videri, sive domum rediret, sive domo egrederetur.

Reduxit domum posterâ.

" Tenuistine? "Thomas Thomas de Islington, Uxorem duxit Die quâdam Solis, Abduxit domum sequenti die, Emit baculum subsequenti, Vapulat ilia posterâ, Aegrotat succedenti, Mortua fit crastina.

Rudens, ii. 1: "Cibum captamus e mari: sin eventus non venit, Neque quidquam captum est piscium, salsi lautique pure, Domum redimus clanculum, dormimus incoenati.

" After these clauses everything is sustained by a longer class of sentences, as if they were erected on these as their pedestal: "Depressam, caecam, jacentem domum pluris, quam te, et quam fortunas tuas, aestimâsti.

BENVENUTO Et heic nota, ut videas, si magna nobilitas vigebat paulo ante in Bretenorio, quod tempore istius Guidonis, quando aliquis vir nobilis et honorabilis applicabat ad terram, magna contentio erat inter multos nobiles de Bretenorio, in cujus domum ille talis forensis deberet declinare.

"] At home, though the rays of "sweet unrationed revelry" were still to come, and Dulce Domum could not yet be sung in every sense, February brought us some relief in the demobilisation of the pivotal pig.

* DULCE DOMUM.

'Quippe domum timet ambiguam, Tyriosque bilingues.' Virg.

'Ducite ab Urbe Domum, mea Carmina, ducite Daphnim.' Virg.

Te sedem Hominum ac Domum contemplarique si tibi parva (ut est) ita videtur, hæc coelestia semper Spectato; illa humana contemnito.' Cicero Somn.

* I domum, Oberon, ad illas Quae nos manent nunc ancillas, Quarum osculemur sinum, Inter poma, lac et vinum.

DUILIUS, CAIUS, a Roman consul; distinguished for having on the coast of Sicily gained the first naval victory recorded in the annals of Rome, 260 B.C. DULCE DOMUM (for Sweet Home), a song sung by the pupils at Winchester College on the approach of and at the break-up of the school for the summer holidays.

Of his quarters in Saragossa in the first year of his classes he wrote: Domum habeo tota die ebullientibus Procerum juvenibus repletam.

Domum tanquam ex Olympo victorem primarii me comitantur.