" Such may have been the arguments, it is not unreasonable to suppose, which influenced the great Leo in his undoubted persecutions,persecutions, we should remember, which were then indorsed by the Catholic Church.

By the second day it was clearly visible to any decent instrument, as a speck with a barely sensible diameter, in the constellation Leo near Regulus.

IV Leo at first intended to divide the work between several masters, giving Buonarroti the general direction of the whole.

That night the star rose later, for its proper eastward motion had carried it some way across Leo towards Virgo, and its brightness was so great that the sky became a luminous blue as it rose, and every star was hidden in its turn, save only Jupiter near the zenith, Capella, Aldebaran, Sirius, and the pointers of the Bear.

The poet was full of hope, for he had known Leo under various fortunes; had been styled by him not only a friend, but a brother; and promised all sorts of participations of his prosperity.

I saw two nebulae in Leo with which I was not familiar, and that repaid me for the time.

Nothing casts stronger light upon the low tone of Roman society created by Leo than the outburst of frenzy and execration which exploded when a Fleming was elected as his successor.