D BY LORD COLCHESTER [Illustration: fide et fiducia] IN TWO VOLUMES VOL.

Valerius Maximus gives some very neat examples of this in his chapter on self-confidence, de fiducia sui.

Tantane vos generis tenuit fiducia vestri?

Aegri persuasio et fiducia, omni arti et consilio et medicinae praeferenda.

Quodsi incommoda adversitatis infortunia hoc malum invexerint, his infractum animum opponas, Dei verbo ejusque fiducia te suffulcias, &c., Lemnius, lib.

Valerius Maximus gives some very good examples of this in his chapter de fiducia sui.

To the sentences quoted above the next is 'Etenim, nescio quo pacto, magis in studiis homines timor quam fiducia decet.' 'I don't know how it is, but in brain-work mistrust better becomes men than self-confidence.']