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...exchanges announces to an admiring public, that the motto of one of its female literary societies is "arma virumque cano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/20/1884 | See Source »

...Boston boy, with vague fears of the small-pox scourge, translates Arma virumque cano, "I sing of arms and the virus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/13/1882 | See Source »

...come and see me." And, nodding brightly, off he ran. I was just about to ask another question of my literary friend when I was suddenly called away. On my return no one was to be seen. I thought I heard some one in the distance repeating, "Arma virumque cano; Trojae -"; but I may have been mistaken; and, in fact, I am a little afraid that my imagination, always strong, on this occasion completely ran away with me. However, since that time I have lost much of my admiration for my former idol, and am rather getting to think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MACAULAY'S SCHOOL-BOY. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...taught that fine and showy recitations are the great criterion of their learning. They are marked, perhaps, a failure for omission of one preposition in a list of thirty exceptions; get into their heads, that there is only one translation of every passage, - that arma in Arma virumque cano means arms, but never realize but that it must mean arms everywhere; finally, take down translations given by instructors in class as so many isolated facts, and, may we add, believe implicitly in Harkness's Grammar. They get a good fit, as it is commonly regarded; that is, they enter well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/9/1874 | See Source »

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