Fling a glance at France; peer into Prussia, Vox populi is the voice of the King, and the voice of the king is therefore vox Dei.

Fling a glance at France; peer into Prussia, Vox populi is the voice of the King, and the voice of the king is therefore vox Dei.

Sonet vox tua in auribus meis; vox enim tua dulcis est (Canticle of Canticles, ii. 14).

Sonet vox tua in auribus meis; vox enim tua dulcis est (Canticle of Canticles, ii. 14).

It seems irrational that, priests should spend daily more than an hour reading words that they understand not at all, or very imperfectly; and that the beautiful and sublime thought and language of the book of psalms, which are admired by all educated men, should be, to those who read them every day for years, nothing but a tinkling cymbal, vox et praeterea nihil.

Blest is that government, where no art thrives; Vox pupuli, vox Dei, The vulgar's voice it is the voice of God.

Blest is that government, where no art thrives; Vox pupuli, vox Dei, The vulgar's voice it is the voice of God.

O scelus inauditum, O vox damnatorum!

CHAPTER XXVII THE FRIAR AND THE FILIPINO Vox populi, vox Dei

CHAPTER XXVII THE FRIAR AND THE FILIPINO Vox populi, vox Dei

[Lat.], nonentity; flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.].

Non est ornamentum virile concinnitas: as he said of a nightingale, vox es, praeterea nihil, &c.

Alexander was sorry, because there were no more worlds for him to conquer, he is admired by some for it, animosa vox videtur, et regia, 'twas spoken like a Prince; but as wise

[320]Seneca censures him, 'twas vox inquissima et stultissima, 'twas spoken like a Bedlam fool; and that sentence which the same Seneca appropriates to his father Philip and him, I apply to them all, Non minores fuere pestes mortalium quam inundatio, quam conflagratio, quibus, &c. they did as much mischief to mortal men as fire and water, those merciless elements when they rage.

Howsoever most divines contradict it, dicimus inficias, sed vox ea sola reperta est, it must be winked at by politicians.

It was mascula vox et praeclara, a generous speech of Cotta in Sallust, "Many miseries have happened unto me at home, and in the wars abroad, of which by the help of God

Like a bad actor (so Plutarch compares such men in a tragedy, diadema fert, at vox non auditur:

Sed hæc vox carnis et animæ, id est, hominis; nec Sermonis, nec Spiritus', &c.Tertull.

Sternite saxa viam, rapidi discedite fluctus; En! quem turba diu cecinerunt enthea, vates, En! salvator adest; vultus agnoscite, caeci, Divinos, surdos sacra vox permulceat aures.

Quot vox missa pedes abit, horae parte secunda?

VOX POPULI, VOX DEI.

VOX POPULI, VOX DEI.

Chaucer's contemporary, John Gower, wrote his Vox Clamantis in Latin, his Speculum Meditantis (a lost poem), and a number of ballades in Parisian French, and his Confessio Amantis (1393) in English.

It is therefore not to be regarded as merely a difference in subjective opinion when it is asserted on the one hand "Vox populi, vox dei"; and on the other (in Ariosto, for instance) "Che'l Volgare ignorante ogn' un riprenda E parli piü di quel che meno intenda.

It is therefore not to be regarded as merely a difference in subjective opinion when it is asserted on the one hand "Vox populi, vox dei"; and on the other (in Ariosto, for instance) "Che'l Volgare ignorante ogn' un riprenda E parli piü di quel che meno intenda.