Deo juvante, nil nocet livor malus: Et non juvante nil juvat labor gravis.

[Horace]; eating the bitter bread of banishment [Richard II]; gravis ira regum est semper [Lat.]

Currit, agens mannos, ad villam precipitanter, Auxilium tectis quasi ferre ardentibus instans: Oscitat extemplo, tetigit quum limina villae; Aut abit in somnum gravis, atque oblivia quaerit; Aut etiam properans urbem petit atque revisit.

Si matrona gravis casu diverterit istuc, Illustris domina, aut te Comitissa legat: Est quod displiceat, placeat quod forsitan illis, Ingerere his noli te modo, pande tamen.

If inveterate, or a habit, yet they have lucida intervalla, sometimes well, and sometimes ill; or if more continuate, as the [4071]Vejentes were to the Romans, 'tis hostis magis assiduus quam gravis, a more durable enemy than dangerous: and amongst many inconveniences, some comforts are annexed to it.

"Cum se cutis arida laxat, Fiunt obscuri dentes" when they wax old, and ill-favoured, they may commonly no longer abide them,Jam gravis es nobis, Be gone, they grow stale, fulsome, loathsome, odious, thou art a beastly filthy quean,faciem Phoebe cacantis habes, thou art Saturni podex, withered and dry, insipida et vetula,Te quia rugae turpant, et capitis nives, (I say) be gone, portae patent, proficiscere.

Paulus Jovius gives instance in Galeatius the Second, that heroical Duke of Milan, externas affinitates, decoras quidem regio fastu, sed sibi et posteris damnosas et fere exitiales quaesivit; he married his eldest son John Galeatius to Isabella the King of France his sister, but she was socero tam gravis, ut ducentis millibus aureorum constiterit, her entertainment at Milan was so costly that it almost undid him.

Raro invenitur quisquam eorum modestus et gravis, raro continens, et ut credo sobrius unquam.

Quaeque repulsa gravis. 2379.

de tantilla laetitia, quanta tristitia; post tantam voluptatem quam gravis miseria? 3881.

Cunctiparens tellus, salve, levis esto pusillo Lysigeni, fuerat non gravis ille tibi.

Cecropidis gravis hic ponor, Martique dicatus, Quo tua signantur gesta, Philippe, lapis.

Sint Demosthenica ut jurata cadavera voce, Stabo illis qui sunt, quique fuere, gravis.

Clament periisse pudorem Cuncti penè patres, ea cum reprehendere coner, Quæ gravis Æsopus, quæ doctus Roscius egit: Vel quia nil rectum, nisi quod placuit sibi, ducunt; Vel quia turpe putant parere minoribus, et, quæ Imberbes didicere, senes perdenda fateri.

Yet the later tradition of his acting was rather that he was serious and self-restrained; Horace calls him gravis, and Quintilian too speaks of his gravitas.

Page 314, l. 3. gravis: serious.

Consilia interdum stetit egnia[021] mente revolvens: At gravis in densa fronde susuffrus[022] erat, Spiculaque[023]

In earlier years he was a very grave man, with something of the old Puritan sternness in his looks and ways, and he bore still the aspect of a homo gravis; but his gentleness, his tender devotion to the gay young companions who surrounded him, and the almost boyish delight with which he shared in their pleasures, took away all its sternness and lighted up his strongly-marked countenance with singular grace and beauty.

It was an old man singing, the air perhaps that of some old chanson of his own country, sung by villagers long before: "Souvenirs du jeune age Sont gravis dans mon coeur, Quand je pense au village, Revenant du bonheur" The old voice halted, at length resuming, idly: "Quand je pensequand je pense."

The name is coiled around him, with the motto, Gravis cantantibus umbra.

Clament periisse pudorem Cuncti penè patres, ea cum reprehendere coner, Quæ gravis Æsopus, quæ doctus Roscius egit: Vel quia nil rectum, nisi quod placuit sibi, ducunt; Vel quia turpe putant parere minoribus, et, quæ Imberbes didicere, senes perdenda fateri.

O Fortunati mercatores, gravis annis Miles ait, multo jam fractus membra labore!

Illi mors gravis incubat, Qui, notus nimis omnibus, Ignotus moritur sibi.' Seneca.

Orbi consenescenti jubar: Natura et ipsa sentiet quondam vices Ætatis, annis ipsa deficiet gravis: At tibi juventus, at tibi immortalitas, Tibi parta Divûm est vita.

He was the vir pietate gravis.