"Ides" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and hungry man,' of a bitter and jealous disposition, seems to have been the real instigator. He persuaded Brutus, astudent of life chiefly in books, that liberty could only be gained by murder, and at last it was resolved that the deed should be done on the Ides (15th) of March. ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... must we forget the signal service rendered to the universal church in these same mountains of Rassa by the discomfiture of the heretic monks Gazzari to which end Pope Clement V. in 1307 issued several bulls, and among them one bearing date on the third day of the ides of August, given at Pottieri, in which he confirmed the liberty of our people, and acknowledged the Capi as Counts of the Church . . . For the Valsesian people have been ever free, and by God's grace have shaken off the yoke of usurpers while continuing faithful and profitable ...
— Ex Voto • Samuel Butler
... reference to the passage before us we meet most decidedly in John i. 32, 33: [Greek: Tetheamai to pneuma katabainon hosei peristeran ex ouranou, kai emeinen ep'auton. Kago ouk edein auton. all'ho pempsas me baptizein en hudati, ekeinos moi eipen. eph'hon an ides to pneuma katabainon kai menon ep'auton, houtos estin ho baptizon en pneumati hagio]. The word [Hebrew: nvH], which in Numb. xi. 25 also is used of the Spirit, combines in itself both the [Greek: katabainein] and the [Greek: menein]; it is requiescere. ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 • Ernst Hengstenberg
... at her ides of felicity—no cares, and plenty of dogs and cats! He did not anticipate any haven of rest at the end of the two years for himself. He knew that his life must be a series of conflicts to the very end. Still he hoped for relief from the load of debt, and looked forward to the ...
— We Two • Edna Lyall
... of our good fellowes meet; Nor is our talke prolong'd with rude delay; In harmlesse jests we spend the day; Jests dip'd in so much salt, which rubbing shall Onely make fresh our cheeks, not gall. If that rich churle, this had but seen, when hee A Country man began to be, The money which i'th' Ides hee scraped in Next month hee'd ...
— The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils • Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski
... an attitude which stands for an ides or a quality; (Special) that which stands for or ...
— Outwitting Our Nerves - A Primer of Psychotherapy • Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury
... waste the public revenue on Lagado professors who would extract sunbeams from cucumbers and calcine ice into gunpowder. While nothing short of a perusal of the complete text of the oration in question can give an adequate ides of how much folly a 'varsity president can pump through his face in a given period, its salient features can be summed up in ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... in honour of Mars were generally held in the month of March; but he had also a festival on the Ides of October, when chariot-races took place, after which, the right-hand horse of the team which had drawn the victorious chariot, was sacrificed to him. In ancient times, human sacrifices, more especially prisoners ...
— Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome • E.M. Berens
... engineer pathetically, after he had cuffed the boy's head and dropped him down below by the scruff of his neck, "you think because I've got a black face I'm not a man. There's many a hoily face 'ides a good 'art." ...
— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs
... decided to even up the ledger of ill-usage by giving her a well-placed nip on the hip. Ikkie now sits down with difficulty, and Bobs shows the white of his eye when she comes near him, which isn't more often than Ikkie can help—And of such, in these troublous Ides of March, and April and May, is the kingdom of ...
— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer
... them divine doctrines, in the midst of holy choirs and of many brethren and monks to whom in turn he gave his blessing and the kiss of peace according to the rule, the glorious and holy bishop departed to heaven accompanied by hosts of angels on the day before the Ides of May [May 14], in his union with the Holy Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, for ...
— Lives of SS. Declan and Mochuda • Anonymous
... amongst the English than Cyrus amongst the Persians, Romulus amongst the Romans, Alexander amongst the Macedonians, Arsaces amongst the Parthians, Charles (the Great) amongst the Franks, in the 37th year of his age and 21st year of his reign with his brother and alone, died on the Ides of July, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation, v. 1, Northern Europe • Richard Hakluyt
... a thousand besans of gold (which, in English money, amounteth to five thousand pounds), for reparation of the damages thou hast done in this country. Half thou shalt pay to-morrow, and the other half at the ides of May next coming, leaving with us in the mean time, for hostages, the Dukes of Turnbank, Lowbuttock, and Smalltrash, together with the Prince of Itches and Viscount of Snatchbit (Tournemoule, Bas-de-fesses, Menuail, ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... leave thy quiet home, For lo! the ides of April come! Then hasten to my bower; A cask of rich Albanian wine, In nine years mellowness, is mine, To ...
— Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace • Anna Seward |
