Paterfamilias (reading).

" "So you are happy, like a good paterfamilias, in your little nook?

Vir apertus, candidus, simplex; paterfamilias optimus amore, cura, diligentia, frugalitate, prudentia.

Paternity N. paternity; parentage; consanguinity &c 11. parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba^; genitor, progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire^, grandfather; great- grandfather; fathership^, fatherhood; mabap^. house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs.

She tried hard to make Amram and the Paterfamilias out of them.

But in Selwyn it amounted to something more than in the ordinary paterfamilias: it was almost a passion.

Those who have no children may laugh, but as a paterfamilias you should be ashamed to do so.

Another girl, pretty and well-dressed,in the glove-making line, as I guess from the family she is with, all of whom, from paterfamilias to baby, are begloved in a manner entirely irrespective of expense,is kneeling pensively on the stern-benches of the upper deck, paying out the line with confidence in herself, but evidently hoping for masculine assistance in the process of hauling it in.

In the second century B.C. old Cato had described the paterfamilias, on his arrival at his farm from the city, saluting the Lar familiaris before he goes about his round of inspection; and even Horace hardly shows a trace of the agnostic when he pictures the slaves of the farm, and the master with them, sitting at their meal in front of the image of the Lar.

Here, too, was the Lar of the familia with his little altar, behind the entrance, and here was the lectus genialis,[380] and the Genius of the paterfamilias.

It may perhaps be paralleled with the love of the Roman for processions, e.g. the lustrations of farm, city, and army, and with his instinctive desire for aid and counsel in all important matters both of public and private life, shown in the consilium of the paterfamilias and of the magistrate.

[Footnote 442: The tradition was that the paterfamilias originally also sat instead of reclining.

Paterfamilias, who, while poring over his ledger, had evidently had his ears open, now became alarmed at the reduction that was going on in his stock, and consequently came forward to scrutinize the mysterious purchaser.

Paterfamilias at the door, smoking a cigara lad of ten years of age appears.

"Get out, Jemmy, I'll set him right;" and accordingly, Shelty's leg was lifted inside, and Paterfamilias commenced lunging him round and round before the door.

Of course Benjamin's first attempts were on the sly, and he could not ask paterfamilias for money to buy a brush without encountering the good man's scorn.

Paterfamilias swore outright; the companion of his earthly pilgrimage said, "We must be going north," and, as the heavy veil of carbonic acid gas was lifted from infant faces, and the pure oxygen filled their lungs and roused them to new life, they set up one simultaneous shout of joy and gratitude, which their parents mistook for agony.

I had a long piazza, encased in netting, where paterfamilias, with his pipe, could muse and gaze at the stars unmolested. June brought Miss Anthony and a box of fresh documents for another season of work on vol.

(BY A POOR PATERFAMILIAS.)

No longer need Paterfamilias groan At the cost of that month by the Sea!

(Paterfamilias's answer.)Give them away!

" "Ah, Paterfamilias, thank you.

When will Paterfamilias himself turn up?

The young or old, the ponderous paterfamilias or his sylph-like daughter, may with equal propriety take part in its easy and elegant figures.

Paterfamilias (reading School Report).