The sun streamed in broad flashes of light over the soft rose-tinted walls of the palazzo and over the splendid balcony from which the Doge was wont to view the processions and fêtes of the Republic; the richly sculptured decorations detached themselves at once in allegory, the figures all leading up to Venice enthroned, holding out to the world her proud motto, "Fortis, justa, trono furias, mare sub pede pono."

Nunc est libendum, nunc pede libero terra pulsanda: a pox on him that leaves his drink behind him.

37 "Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero Pulsanda tellus.

Et pede clivosas fesso calcabimus Alpes.

Est et copiositas papingonum auium viridium in colore quas appellant phicake, et quarum diuersa sunt genera, nobiliores habent latas in rostro linguas, et in vtroque pede digitos duos.

Aliæ nec loquuntur, nec eradiuntur, sed solùm clamitant pro voce milui, et nisi tres digitos habent in pede.

Quorundam corpore partes nascuntur ad aliqua mirabiles sicut Pyrrho regi pollex in dextero pede: cuius tactu lienosis medebatur.

Phr. cela va sans dire [Fr.]; ex pede Herculem [Lat.]; noscitur a sociis [Lat.]; ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat

The same thing, no doubt, happens to many others as well; for where is the man who can help thinking that, after all, it were better not to have done something that he did with great deliberation: Quid tam dextro pede concipis ut te Conatus non poeniteat votique peracti?

" On the other side, in adversity many mutter and repine, despair, &c., both bad, I confess, "ut calceus olim Si pede major erit, subvertet: si minor, uret.

"Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.

Stans pede in uno, as he made verses.

Campus amoris maximus et spinis obsitus, nec levissimo pede transvolandus.

[Footnote 3: in hora sæpe ducentos, Ut magnum, versus dictabat stans pede in uno.

I pede fausto!

Tibullus gives us a good idea of them: "Agricola assiduo primum satiatus aratro Cantavit oerto rustica verba pede; Et satur arenti primum est modulatus avena Carmen, ut ornatos diceret ante decs; Agricola et minio suffusus, Bacche, rubenti Primus inexperta duxit ab arte choros.

It is not perhaps generally known, that in the writings of Sodates, a poet of Thrace, many of the verses may be turned and read different ways, without either losing the measure or sense; for instance the following, which may be read backwards: "Roma tibi stibito motibus ibit amor Si bene te, tua laus taxat, sua laute tenebis Sole medere pede, ede perede, melos.

Sic ego secretis possum bene vivere silvis Qua nulla humano sit via trita pede.

[Footnote 3: in hora sæpe ducentos, Ut magnum, versus dictabat stans pede in uno.

si quis vultu torvo ferus et pede nudo Exiguæque togæ simulet textore Catonem; Virtutemne repræsentet moresque Catonis?' Hor.

The throned figure of Venice above bears a scroll inscribed: Fortis, justa, trono furias, mare sub pede, pono.

Here he certainly had an opportunity of displaying the great style of Michael Angelo; it was beyond his daring; the Hercules is a sturdy child, and that is all, we see not the ex pede Herculem.

That was an exceedingly dull person who made the remark, Ex pede Herculem.

Ex PEDE, to be sure!

It was no great speech, a few sentences of compliment to the city and of good-natured banter of the political foes among whom he found himself; but it was ex pede Herculem, a leader red-blooded to the finger-tips.