But it was a natural feeling with the Romans to look upon the fall of their city as the consequence of a nefas which no human power could resist.

[-19-] Besides granting him these privileges they regarded the day on which he had been murdered (on which there was always a regular meeting of the senate) as a dies nefas.

Vertit in aerias turres magalia virtus, Inque casas humiles tecta superba nefas.

Juvenal, indeed, gives us a noble picture of inflexible virtue: "Esto bonus miles, tutor bonus, arbiter idem Integer: ambiguae si quando citabere testis, Incertaeque rei, Phalaris licet imperet ut sis, Falsus, et admoto dictet perjuria tauro, Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori, Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.

Adverso, interim, nefas!

fidem suam: nihil autem in eo nec pannus, nec capillus laesus per ignem inuentus est; Quod videns populus vnanimitèr conclamare coepit, sancti sunt, sancti sunt, nefas est offendere eos, modò videmus quia fides eorum bona et sancta est.

Adv. through evil report and good report, through thick and thin, through fire and water; per fas et nefas [Lat.]; without fail, sink or swim, at any price, vogue la galere

Adv. through, by, per; whereby, thereby, hereby; by the agency of &c 170; by dint of; by virtue of, in virtue of; through the medium of &c n.; along with; on the shoulders of; by means of &c 632; by the aid of, with the aid of &c (assistance) 707. per fas et nefas

Controversial Dialectic is the art of disputing, and of disputing in such a way as to hold one's own, whether one is in the right or the wrongper fas et nefas.

He sets to work per fas et nefas; nay, as we have seen, he cannot easily do otherwise.

ad sermon still seeking what sacrifice he may offer to his golden god, per fas et nefas, he cares not how, his trouble is endless, crescunt divitiae, tamen curtae nescio quid semper abest rei: his wealth increaseth, and the more he hath, the more he wants: like Pharaoh's lean kine, which devoured the fat, and were not satisfied.

Some out of that insatiable desire of filthy lucre, to be enriched, care not how they come by it per fas et nefas, hook or crook, so they have it.

2. cunctos honorat, universis inclinat, subsequitur, obsequitur, frequentat curias, visitat, optimates amplexatur, applaudit, adulatur: per fas et nefas e latebris, in omnem gradum ubi aditus patet se integrit, discurrit.

The beings were "mere Irishry,"a stumbling-block in the path of British civilization, and therefore to be removed, per fas et nefas.

When in 61 B.C. Clodius was caught in disguise at the women's festival of the Bona Dea, the pontifices declared the act to be nefas,crime against the ius divinum; but we may doubt whether any of those pontifices really believed in the existence of such a deity.

bona Missus Molo Mommsen Money-lenders Moretum ("Virgil's") Mos majorum Muliones Munera Nefas Negotiatores Negotium Nepos, Cornelius Neptunalia, the Nicomedes, king of Bithynia Novemdiales, Ludi.

Hoe omnino devitamus, quia nefas est ut oblatis a parentibus Deo filiis voluptatis frena relaxentur.

et triste nefas!)

And no one in the whole world knowsexcept his housekeeper and me-that he weighs practically nothing; that he is a mere boring mass of assimilatory matter, mere clouds in clothing, niente, nefas, the most inconsiderable of men.

While I was endeavouring to pacify them by the only argument I had at my disposal, founded on the principle of "levius fit patientiâ quidquid corrigere est nefas," one of our servants brought us the joyful news that from an eminence adjacent he had discovered an abatta, or clump of blanket tents, surrounded by cultivated land, about a mile off.

Then, 'Dissimulare etiam sperasti, perfide tantum Posse nefas, tacitusque meam subducere terram?' he muttered in low yet sonorous tones.

"Me bello e tanto digressum et cæde recenti, Attrectare nefas, donec me flumine vivo Abluero.

'Religentem esse oportet, Religiosum nefas.

Parnell. 'Durum: sed levius sit patientiâ Quicquid corrigere est nefas.' Hor.

'Tu ne quæsieris (scire nefas) quem mihi, quem tibi, Finem Dii dederint, Leuconoe; nec Babylonios Tentaris numeros' Hor.