" 'FORTUNATUS "Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes.

Semel insanivimus omnes.

Omnibus una manet nox, et calcanda semel via lethi.

nomina stultorum parietibus haerent [Lat.]; semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum [Lat.].

"Et quodcunque semel chartis illeverit, omnes Gestiet a furno redeuntes scire lacuque, Et pueros et anus" "What once is said and writ, all men must know, Old wives and children as they come and go.

Marcilius Ficinus was semel et simul; a priest and a physician at once, and T. Linacer in his old age took orders.

If every man had a window in his breast, which Momus would have had in Vulcan's man, or that which Tully so much wished it were written in every man's forehead, Quid quisque de republica sentiret, what he thought; or that it could be effected in an instant, which Mercury did by Charon in Lucian, by touching of his eyes, to make him discern semel et simul rumores et susurros.

Felix Platerus is of opinion all alchemists are mad, out of their wits; Atheneus saith as much of fiddlers, et musarum luscinias, Musicians, omnes tibicines insaniunt, ubi semel efflant, avolat illico mens, in comes music at one ear, out goes wit at another.

And though they laugh many times, and seem to be extraordinary merry (as they will by fits), yet extreme lumpish again in an instant, dull and heavy, semel et simul, merry and sad, but most part sad: Si qua placent, abeunt; inimica tenacius haerent: sorrow sticks by them still continually, gnawing as the vulture did Titius' bowels, and they cannot avoid it.

Every country is full of such [3202]delightsome prospects, as well within land, as by sea, as Hermon and [3203]Rama in Palestina, Colalto in Italy, the top of Magetus, or Acrocorinthus, that old decayed castle in Corinth, from which Peloponessus, Greece, the Ionian and Aegean seas were semel et simul at one view to be taken.

" "Qui semel id patera mistum Nepenthes Iaccho Hauserit, hic lachrymam, non si suavissima proles, Si germanus ei charus, materque paterque Oppetat, ante oculos ferro confossus atroci.

now and then reject them, estrange thyself, et si me audies semel atque iterum exclude, shut him out of doors once or twice, let him dance attendance; follow my counsel, and by this means you shall make him mad, come off roundly, stand to any conditions, and do whatsoever you will have him.

Sometimes both parties themselves are not agreed: parents, tutors, masters, guardians, will not give consent; laws, customs, statutes hinder: poverty, superstition, fear and suspicion: many men dote on one woman, semel et simul: she dotes as much on him, or them, and in modesty must not, cannot woo, as unwilling to confess as willing to love: she dare not make it known, show her affection, or speak her mind.

" Let's all love, dum vires annique sinunt, while we are in the flower of years, fit for love matters, and while time serves: for "Soles occidere et redire possunt, Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, Nox est perpetuo una dormienda.

"Quod semel dictum est stabilisque rerum Terminus servet.

Semel insanivimus omnes.

Gracchus' intentions were doubtless honest and good; but "ubi semel recto deerratum est, in praeceps pervenitur.

Vorpali, semel atque iterum collectus in ictum, Persnicuit gladio persnacuitque puer: Deinde galumphatus, spernens informe cadaver, Horrendum monstri rettulit ipse caput.

tribuatur, hoc est, semel in mense.

Semel insanivimus omnes, iv.

i.: "Id commune malum, semel insanivimus omnes.

Quicunque turpi fraude semel innotuit, Etiamsi verum dicit, amittit fidem.

The finest lines in the play Amiam: che 'l sol si muore, e poi rinasce; A noi sua breve luce S' asconde, e 'l sonno eterna notte adduce(Coro I.) belong to Catullus: Viuamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus;... soles occidere et redire possunt; nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.

Howsoe're the Minutes go, Run the heures or swift or slow: Seem the Months or short or long, Passe the seasons right or wrong: All we sing that Phoebus follow, Semel in anno ridet Apollo.

Early fall the Spring or not, Prove the Summer cold or hot: Autumne be it faire or foule, Let the Winter smile or skowle: Still we sing, that Phoebus follow, Semel in anno ridet Apollo.