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# Letters to Atticus/4.9

Translated by Evelyn Shuckburgh

## To Atticus at Rome
### Cumae, 28 April 55 BC

I should much like to know whether the tribunes are hindering the census by stopping business with their bad omens (for there is a rumour to that effect), and what they are doing and contriving as to the censorship altogether. I have had an interview with Pompey here. He talked a good deal to me about politics. He is not at all satisfied with himself, to judge from what he says—one is obliged to put in that proviso in his case. He thinks very little of Syria as a province; talks a good deal about Spain—here, too, I must add, "to judge from what he says," and, I think, his whole conversation requires that reservation, and to be ticketed as Phocylides did his verses—kai tode phôkulidou. He expressed gratitude to you for undertaking to arrange the statues: towards myself he was, by Hercules, most effusively cordial. He even came to my Cuman house to call on me. However, the last thing he seemed to wish was that Messalla should stand for the consulship: that is the very point on which I should like to hear what you know. I am much obliged by your saying that you will recommend my fame to Lucceius, and for your frequent inspection of my house. My brother Quintus has written to tell me that, as you have that dear boy, his son Quintus, staying with you, he intends coming to your house on the 7th of May. I left my Cuman villa on the 26th of April. That night I spent at Naples with Paetus. I write this very early on the 27th, on my road to my Pompeian house.

## Footnotes

* ↑ The tribunes had no veto against the censors, they could only hinder them by the indirect method of obnuntiatio, declaring that the omens were bad, and so preventing business.
* ↑ This also is Phocylides's.
* ↑ In Pompey's new theatre.
# Letters to Atticus/4.8a

Translated by Evelyn Shuckburgh

## To Atticus at Rome
### Arpinum, April-May 56 BC

There were many things in your letter which pleased me, but nothing more than your "dish of cheese and salt fish"! For as to what you say about the sale,
   Boast not yourself before you see the end,
I can find nothing in the way of a building for you in the neighbourhood. In the town there is something of the sort, though it is doubtful whether it is for sale, and, in fact, close to my own house. Let me tell you that Antium is the Buthrotum of Rome, just what your Buthrotum is to Corcyra. Nothing can be quieter, cooler, or prettier—"be this mine own dear home." Moreover, since Tyrannio has arranged my books for me, my house seems to have had a soul added to it; in which matter your Dionysius and Menophilus were of wonderful service. Nothing can be more charming than those bookcases of yours, since the title-slips have shewn off the books. Good-bye. I should like you to write me word about the gladiators, but only if they fight well, I don't want to know about them if they were failures.

## Footnotes

* ↑ We must suppose Atticus to have mentioned some money loss (see last letter), and to have added that, though a ruinous one, his tastes were simple, and he could live on simple fare. Cicero laughs at the affectation of the rich Atticus. Raudusculum, "a piece of bronze," was the ancient term for the piece of bronze money used in sales, per as et libram (Varro, L. 50.5.163).
* ↑ mêpô meg' eipêis prin teleutêsant' idêis, "Do not boast till you see a man dead"—a well-known line from a lost play of Sophocles, containing a sentiment elsewhere often repeated, especially in Herodotus's account of the interview of Solon and Croesus.
* ↑ eiê moi houtos philos oikos, according to a probable restoration of the Greek words (instead of eiê misêtos philos oikos, "I might even hate my town house in comparison"); cp. Hor. Od. 2.6, 7.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1722/Captive Spring

* CAPTIVE SPRING.
* What, gentle Spring, and art thou come? Desire,
* Under the iron sceptre of thy sire,
* Cried out for thee.
* Fair truant! couldst thou not have flown
* More quickly to our colder zone,
* From those beyond the sea?
* Or didst thou linger on, and grieve
* The sunny southern land to leave?
* Cease for awhile thy wandering,
* Rest and be welcome, gentle Spring.
* Why, like a maid that would the more be sought,.
* Dost hide thee, almost ere thy beauty caught
* Our eager view,
* Behind yon cloud that frowning passed?
* A laggard surely, and the last
* Of winter's sullen crew
* He will not aid thee in thy wiles:
* See, at thy touch the traitor smiles;
* And thou, discovered once again,
* Shalt find thy shyness all in vain.
* Besides, an hour ago her fragrance sweet
* Disclosed the violet springing at my feet;
* And I knew well,
* Gazing upon the purple gem,
* From whose bright veil or diadem
* That tiny treasure fell.
* I spied the crocus lifting up
* His yellow head, his golden cup;
* The very daisies in the grass
* Showed me the way that Spring did pass.
* Yield, then, fair nymph! for, goddess as thou art,
* We will not let thee from our shore depart
* Until thou bless
* The land that all expectant lies,
* And every soul that longing sighs
* To feel thy soft caress.
* The waking bees, the happy birds,
* The timid flocks, the patient herds,
* Thy presence own with grateful joy,
* And silent mourn if thou art coy.
* From thy full hands we claim the daffodil,
* And those bright bells the midnight fairies fill
* With honey dew;
* Pink blossom of the almond-tree,
* Tender laburnum hanging free,
* And periwinkle blue.
* Spare us those jewels from thy crown,
* These buds that deck thy gauzy gown;
* And stay thy flight, and fold thy wing —
* We hold thee captive, gentle Spring.
* Sydney Grey.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1721/Montenegro

* MONTENEGRO.
* They rose to where their sovran eagle sails,
* They kept their faith, their freedom, on the height,
* Chaste, frugal, savage, arm'd by day and night
* Against the Turk; whose inroad nowhere scales
* Their headlong passes, but his footstep fails,
* And red with blood the Crescent reels from fight
* Before their dauntless hundreds, in prone flight
* By thousands down the crags and thro' the vales.
* O smallest among peoples! rough rock-throne
* Of freedom! warriors beating back the swarm
* Of Turkish Islam for five hundred years,
* Great Tsernagora! never since thine own
* Black ridges drew the cloud and brake the storm
* Has breathed a race of mightier mountaineers.
* Nineteenth Century.Alfred Tennyson.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1722

LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.
| Fifth Series, Volume XVIII. | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | No. 1722. — June 16, 1877. | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | From Beginning Vol. CXXXIII. |
CONTENTS. :
| I. | Wallace's "Russia", | Edinburgh Review, | 643 |
| II. | The Marquis of Lossie. By George Mac Donald, author of "Malcolm," etc. Part XVIII., | Advance Sheets, | 656 |
| III. | The World of Fiction, | Church Quarterly Review, | 667 |
| IV. | Pauline. In The Hebrides. Part III., | Blackwood's Magazine, | 680 |
| V. | The Income of the Established Church, | Spectator, | 690 |
| VI. | Green Pastures and Piccadilly. By William Black. Part XVII., | Examiner, | 693 |
| VII. | The "Find" in the Land of Midian, | Spectator, | 696 |
| VIII. | Italian Servants versus English, | Examiner, | 699 |
| IX. | A Circassian Scotchman, | Leisure Hour, | 701 |
| X. | The Transvaal, | Economist, | 702 |
| XI. | Kidnapping a Sloth, | Leisure Hour, | 703 |
POETRY. :
| Captive Spring, | 642 | Greece and England, | 642 |
| Miscellany, | Miscellany, | Miscellany, | 704 |
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1721/A Little While

* A LITTLE WHILE.
* Such a little while, such a little while
* At our own inconstancy should we sigh or smile?
* Blind and deaf the tyrant, Love, who rules our inner life
* He neither heeds nor hears the toss and tumult of the strife.
* Raising one to sure calm height, to dash another down;
* Gathering flowers from new-made graves, to wreathe the bridal crown.
* Blessing here with perfect faith, tender, strong and true;
* Blighting there some radiant bloom, fresh blossoms to renew.
* Wrenching purest ties in twain, wounding, searing, healing —
* All the weakness of our hearts day by day revealing.
* Helpless human life goes on, as the wheel revolves,
* Passing our poor struggles o'er, crushing our resolves.
* What avails to strive or wail? better to beguile
* Each swift hour, with all it gives - for a little while.
* Gather roses while they blow, catch the sunbeams passing;
* Every moment, shine or shade, the great stream is glassing.
* Such a little while ago, such a little while!
* And I dreamt that life was lit but by your joyous smile.
* Such a little while ago, and you thought or swore —
* Given a loving look of mine, and hope would ask no more.
* Now, can you quite remember your glory in your choice?
* Can I recall the old sweet thrill that answered to your voice?
* In sooth, we scarcely can, dear; all passed like April's smile;
* Such a little while ago, such a little while!
* We'll owe it kindly memories, that happy dream we dreamt;
* It had no inner claim to be from Love's strange laws exempt.
* Yet recollect it tenderly, for in its brief bright reign
* Was many a joy whose subtle charm we shall not find again.
* The spell was woven deftly, it was potent to beguile;
* Such a little while ago, such a little while!
* Victoria Magazine.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1721/Together

* TOGETHER.
* Babes that on a morn of May,
* Laughing, in the sunshine play;
* Babes to whom the longest day
* Seems to fly!
* Babes to whom all things are toys,
* Life a sweet that never cloys,
* Home a fount of simple joys,
* Never dry.
* Babes so bright, so blest, so fair,
* With dimpled cheeks and golden hair;
* Can they be — that happy pair! —
* You and I?
* Babes no longer, now they stray,
* Girl and boy, beside the bay
* On a sunshine holiday —
* Fond, but shy.
* Smiles are many, words are few,
* Hearts are light, when life is new
* And eyes are bluer than the blue
* Of the sky.
* Laughing schoolboy brave and free,
* Little maiden fair to see
* Gath'ring seaweed — can they be
* You and I?
* Boy and girl are man and wife;
* Hand in hand they walk for life;
* Peace and joy be theirs, and strife
* Come not nigh!
* Wand'rers by the eternal deep
* Whose shores are time, so may they keep
* Together, and together sleep
* By-and-by!
* Sleep in death when day is done,
* Wake to life beyond the sun;
* One on earth, in Heaven one —
* You and I!
* All The Year Round.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1722/Greece and England

* GREECE AND ENGLAND.
* Would this sunshine be completer,
* Or these violets smell sweeter,
* Or the birds sing more in metre,
* If it all were years ago,
* When the melted mountain-snow
* Heard in Enna all the woe
* Of the poor forlorn Demeter?
* Would a stronger life pulse o'er us
* If a panther-chariot bore us,
* If we saw, enthroned before us,
* Ride the leopard-footed god,
* With a fir-cone tip the rod,
* Whirl the thyrsus round, and nod
* To a drunken Maenad-chorus?
* Bloomed there richer, redder roses
* Where the Lesbian earth incloses
* All of Sappho? where reposes
* Meleager, laid to sleep
* By the olive-girdled deep;
* Where the Syrian maidens weep,
* Bringing serpolet in posies?
* Ah! it may be! Greece had leisure
* For a world of faded pleasure;
* We must tread a tamer measure,
* To a milder, homelier lyre;
* We must tend a paler fire,
* Lay less perfume on the pyre,
* Be content with poorer treasure!
* Were the brown-limbed lovers bolder?
* Venus younger, Cupid older?
* Down the wood-nymph's warm white shoulder
* Trailed a purpler, madder vine?
* Were the poets more divine?
* Brew we no such golden wine
* Here, where summer suns are colder?
* Yet for us too life has flowers,
* Time a glass of joyous hours,
* Interchange of sun and showers,
* And a wealth of leafy glades,
* Meant for loving men and maids,
* Full of warm green lights and shades,
* Trellis-work of wild-wood bowers.
* So while English suns are keeping
* Count of sowing-time and reaping,
* We've no need to waste our weeping,
* Though the glad Greeks lounged at ease
* Underneath their olive-trees,
* And the Sophoclean bees
* Swarmed on lips of poets sleeping!
* Temple Bar.Edmund W. Gosse.
# Lyons v. Munson/Opinion of the Court

* Court Documents
* Case Syllabus
* Opinion of the Court
United States Supreme Court
99 U.S. 684
Lyons v. Munson
All the questions presented for our consideration by this record relate to the validity of bonds issued by the town of Lyons in payment for railroad stock subscribed by its proper authorities.
Propositions covering the entire ground of the controversy between the parties have been so frequently decided by this court that any extended examination of the case is unnecessary. Orleans v. Platt (supra, p. 676), our last adjudication of this class, is conclusive in favor of affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court.
The county judge unquestionably had jurisdiction to decide upon the application made by the tax-payers. His judgment until reversed was final. If there were errors, the proceedings should have been brought before a higher court for review by a writ of certiorari, and if need be, the issuing and circulation of the bonds should have been enjoined, subject to the final result of the litigation. The judgment rendered can no more be callaterally attacked in this case than could any other judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction rendered with the parties, as in this properly before it. The recital in the bonds sets forth the judgment of the county judge, that it was duly rendered, that the bonds were issued pursuant to the statutes referred to, for the object specified in the petition of the tax-payers, and by persons properly appointed and charged by law with the duty of subscribing for the stock and issuing the bonds to pay for it.
The sufficiency of the statutory authority under which the proceedings were had is not denied.
Under such circumstances the recital is an estoppel. A bona fide holder of the bonds was not bound to look further, and the obligor cannot go behind it. Orleans v. Platt, supra; Lynde v. The County, 16 Wall. 6; Mercer County v. Hacket, 1 Wall. 83; Commissioners of Knox County v. Aspinwall, 21 How. 539; Township of Rock Creek v. Strong, 96 U.S. 271.
The learned judge below in his charge to the jury well remarked: 'To imply the intent that such obligations after they are negotiated shall be vulnerable to the objections here urged, would be to impute had faith to the authors of such legislation towards those who are to be induced to invest in such bonds.'
Judgment affirmed.

## Notes

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# Lyon v. Singer Singer

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United States Supreme Court
339 U.S. 841
Lyon v. Singer Singer
Argued: April 18-19, 1950. --- Decided: June 5, 1950
Mr. Albert R. Connelly, New York City, for Singer.
Mr. Edward Feldman, New York City, for Lyon, Superintendent of Banks, etc., et al.
Mr. Allen T. Klots, New York City, for Banque Mellie Iran.
Mr. James L. Morrisson, Washington D.C., for the United States, as amicus curiae by Special leave of Court.
PER CURIAM.

## Notes

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# Lyons Company v. Lubin/Opinion of the Court

* Court Documents
* Case Syllabus
* Opinion of the Court
United States Supreme Court
355 U.S. 284
Lyons Company v. Lubin
The motion to dismiss is granted and the appeal is dismissed for want of a substantial federal question.

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# Lyons Company v. Lubin

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United States Supreme Court
355 U.S. 284
Lyons Company v. Lubin
Messrs. C. Dickerman Williams and Henry Alexander, for appellant.
Messrs. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., of New York, John R. Davison, Sol. Gen. and Roy Wiedersum, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
PER CURIAM.

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# Lyons v. Munson

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United States Supreme Court
99 U.S. 684
Lyons v. Munson
ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York.
This was an action brought by Edgar Munson upon three hundred and eighty-seven coupons or interest warrants originally attached to one hundred and twenty-nine bonds issued by the town of Lyons, Wayne County, New York, for $1,000 each, in payment of its subscription to the Sodus Bay, Corning, and New York Railroad Company, a corporation of that State, being the coupons for interest due respectively Oct. 1, 1872, and April 1 and Oct. 1, 1873, each for the sum of $35, payable to bearer at the Central National Bank of the city of New York.
Each bond bears date May 17, 1872, and recites that it was 'issued under the authority contained in chapter nine hundred and seven of the laws of 1869 of that State, and the amendments thereto, and under and pursuant to a judgment and determination of the county judge of Wayne County, dated May 17, 1872, duly rendered and entered of record under and pursuant to a petition of the tax-payers of said town, praying that said town issue its bonds to the amount of $150,000, and invest the same in the capital stock of that company; and at the foot of each of them is the following certificate, viz.:--
'WAYNE COUNTY, ss.:-Registered in the county clerk's office.
'In witness whereof, the clerk of Wayne County has hereto set his hand and affixed his seal of office.
[L. S.] 'ALFRED F. REDFIELD, Clerk.'
The defence relied on was that the plaintiff was not a bona fide holder of the coupons for value, and that the petition presented to the county judge was rendered illegal and void by containing a condition, in these words: 'Provided that the terminus of said road is made at Nicholas Point, on Sodus Bay, in the town of Huron;' and a qualifying clause, in these words: 'It is understood that the stock so to be taken is to embrace and include the stock now already subscribed and taken by persons residing in the said town of Lyons, amounting to the sum of $16,400;' and that by reason of the insufficiency and illegality of the petition, the county judge had no authority or jurisdiction to render the judgment mentioned in the bonds, and that the same are void.
The jury, under the direction of the court, returned a verdict for the amount of the coupons, with interest. The questions of law were reserved for consideration upon the motion of the plaintiff for judgment on the verdict. After argument, judgment was rendered in his favor.
The defendant thereupon sued out this writ.
Mr. H. L. Comstock for the plaintiff in error.
Mr. W. F. Cogswell, contra.
MR. JUSTICE SWAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.

## Notes

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# Lyon v. Singer Singer/Opinion of the Court

* Court Documents
* Case Syllabus
* Opinion of the Court
United States Supreme Court
339 U.S. 841
Lyon v. Singer Singer
Argued: April 18-19, 1950. --- Decided: June 5, 1950
Certiorari was granted in these cases to review federal issues respecting the administration of frozen alien property. 339 U.S. 902, 909, 70 S.Ct. 517, 518, 567, 569.
The cases arose from suits brought by claimants Singer and Mellie Iran to collect from a statutory bank liquidator claims allegedly entitled to a preference under New York Banking Law, McK.Consol. Laws, c. 2, § 606, arising from transactions with a Japanese corporation, blocked under Executive Orders Nos. 8389, 5 Fed.Reg. 1400; 8832, 6 Fed.Reg. 3715, 12 U.S.C.A. § 95a note. The New York Court of Appeals held that the transactions gave rise to a preferred claim in the liquidation but that payment by the liquidator must await specific licensing by the Alien Property Custodian of the transactions underlying the claims. Singer v. Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., 293 N.Y. 542, 58 N.E.2d 726; Id., 299 N.Y. 113, 85 N.E.2d 894; Banque Mellie Iran v. Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., 299 N.Y. 139, 85 N.E.2d 906.
Those opposed to the judgments urge that, as a matter of federal law, the freezing order prevented the creation of any claim recognizable under § 606 of the New York Banking Law.
Oral argument and study of the record have convinced us that the judgments of the New York Court of Appeals are not inconsistent with the First War Powers Act of 1941, § 301, 55 Stat. 839, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 616, or the above Executive Orders. We accept the New York court's determination that under New York law these claims arose from transactions in New York and were entitled to a preference. Since the New York court conditioned enforcement of the claims upon licensing by the Alien Property Custodian, federal control over alien property remains undiminished. Our decision in Propper v. Clark, 337 U.S. 472, 69 S.Ct. 1333, 93 L.Ed. 1480, does not require a contrary conclusion. There the liquidator claimed title to frozen assets adversely to the Custodian, and sought to deny the Custodian's paramount power to vest the alien property in the United States. No such result follows from the New York court's judgments in the present cases.
Since we further agree that, at the time the New York judgments were entered, no licenses had been issued to these claimants, we affirm the judgments below.
Affirmed.
Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER is of the opinion that since the federal question in Nos. 513 and 528 has been eliminated by the license granted by the Director, Office of Alien Property, no jurisdiction to review remains in this Court. Therefore, the writs of certiorari in these two cases should be dismissed.

## Notes

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# Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 2/Letter 109

To MISS MARGARET RUXTON.
Oct. 10, 1838.
I am sure, my dear Margaret, you were pleased at Honora's communication: you wrote a most kind and pleasant letter of congratulation. She has hitherto been most fortunate in pleasing all her friends, both as to the fact and as to the time and manner of telling. Do you remember a conversation we had standing upon the hearth in my room one night, between eleven and twelve, the witching hour, and what you asked me about Captain Beaufort? The secret had then been confided to me; and I hope you will do me the justice to acknowledge that, open-hearted and open-mouthed as I am, I can keep a secret WONDERFUL well.

## Footnotes

* ↑ On the engagement of her sister Honora to Captain Beaufort, her stepmother's brother.