In his wonderful Rerum Liturgicarum (II., xx., 6) he wrote what I add as a finish, to this preface: "Saepe enim volenti et conanti vel ingenii vires vel rerum antiquarum notitia vel alia subsidia defuerunt; nec fieri potuit quin per loca salebrosa in tenebris ambulans interdum offenderim, Cum aliquid incautius et neglentius a me scriptum offenderit, ignoscat primum lector, deinde amica manu corrigat et emendat et quae omisi suppleat.

I blandas inter Charites, mystamque saluta Musarum quemvis, si tibi lector erit.

Non vacat his tempus fugitivum impendere nugis, Nec tales cupio; par mihi lector erit.

Si Criticus Lector, tumidus Censorque molestus, Zoilus et

[130]Non ego ventosa venor suffragia plebis; again, non sum adeo informis, I would not be vilified: "laudatus abunde, Non fastiditus si tibi, lector, ero.

Ut severiora studia iis amaenitatibus lector condire possit.

Taxando et ab his deterrendo humanam lasciviam et insaniam, sed et remedia docendo: non igitur candidus lector nobis succenseat, &c. Commonitio erit juvenibus haec, hisce ut abstineant magis, et omissa lascivia quae homines reddit insanos, virtutis incumbant studiis (Aeneas Sylv.)

Poeta, lector, hic quiescit Hipponax, Si sis scelestus, praeteri, procul, marmor: At te bonum si noris, et bonis natum, Tutum hic sedile, et si placet, sopor tutus.

Two years later, Ruaidri Ua Concobar "granted ten cows every year from himself and from every king that should follow him for ever, to the Lector of Ard Maca, in honor of Patrick, to instruct the youths of Ireland and Alba in Literature.

Quod ad cætera, hunc scriptorem inter apprimè laudandos censeo, neque Græcis, neque barbaris plus æquo faventem, aut iniquum: in orationibus fere brevem, simplicem, nec nimis frequentem: Neque absunt dogmata, e quibus eruditus lector prudentiam, tam moralem, quam civilem, haurire poterit.

En habes Lector Bucolicorum Autores XXXVIII.

His name was Lector Dahlström, but everybody spoke of him as Dally, and little did he care.

At the same time Keith noticed Lector Dahlström rising partly from his seat on the platform as if to see whether anything might be the matter.

He was the richest boy in the class, and Lector Dahlström simply did not dare to put Keith above him.

XII The presiding genius of the examinations was Lector Booklund, teacher of Latin in Lower and Upper Sixth.

By and by Lector Booklund found it hard to ask him a question or give him a direction without open display of irritation.

And Lector Booklund was positively jealous on behalf of his own subject, so that once he flung a bitingly sarcastic remark at the boy because his attention had flared up at the quoting of a phrase in English.

There was no doubt that Lector Booklund could feel it, and every day he watched Keith with more undisguised hostility.

Lector Booklund was standing at his desk with the whole pile in front of him.

"Pick up that thing," Lector Booklund shouted at him with the full force of his powerful lungs.

Sit down!" Instead of sitting down, Keith walked over to the torn copy book, picked it up and turned toward Lector Booklund.

Then, without coming further into the room, he addressed himself to Keith: "I have had a talk with the Rector and with Lector Booklund.

Lector Booklund was a dream.

Oiga el lector el argumento, y podrá responder a tan atrevida pregunta.

Ya puede inferir el lector qué de escenas cómicas ha tenido el autor a su disposición.