Alexander, vinosus, animis imperare non potuit:
Alexander, when drunk, could not command his temper.
Thus, in a state of beer, he committed manslaughter at least, by killing
and slaying his friend Clitus. We could not resist the temptation to
mention this fact, since, as we have so often laughed at its narration
in those interesting compositions called themes, we thought there must
needs be something very funny about it. Alexander the Great, be it
remarked, for the special behoof of schoolboys, furnishes an example of
any virtue or vice descanted on in any prose task or poem under the sun.
Antonio dixit Augustus Lepidum veteratorem fuisse.
Augustus told Antony that Lepidus was a humbug.
We don't know exactly where this historical fact is mentioned. _Lepidus_
is a _funny_ name.
Except, from the foregoing rule, rego, to rule, guberno, to govern,
which have an accusative case; tempero and moderor, to rule, which have
sometimes a dative, sometimes an accusative case; as
Luna regit ministros:
The moon rules the ministers.
That is to say, when it is at the full, and resembles a great O.
Præco pauperes gubernat:
The beadle governs the paupers.
Non semper temperat ipse sibi:
He does not always govern himself.
Non animos mollit proprios, nec temperat iras:
He neither softens his own mind, nor tempers his anger.
Ecce, Ducrow moderatur equos:
Lo, Ducrow manages the horses.
_Q._ Why is a general officer like a writing-master?
_A._ Because he is a _ruler of lines_.