The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-02-21

NeUer giUe up, though the srape-shot may rattle,
Or the fun thunder-cloud over you burst;
Stand like rock--and the storm or the battle
Little shall harm You, though doing the worst.
NeUer giUe Up, If adversely presses,
Providence wisely has mingled the cup,
And the best counsel in all your distresses
Is the stout wstchword-neUer siUe up.
CANT.
Originally the name of an excentric
preacher in Scotland, who contracted
the habit of preaching in such a whin-
ing tone, and slang dialect, as to be un-
derstood by none but his own congrega-
tion.
HoI POLLOI.
90 The many, the multitude, is a term
applied at Cambridge College, England,
to those students who do not graduate
in henors. Writers and speakers use
the term to designate the common peo-
pie, the mass of society. 1t is a Greek
term written In Roman letters.
ELIXIR vTTE.
| The wine of existence, the marrow of
health, the prime of life, the flower of
ones age. EEiTiT is an Arabic word,
signifying Q1sintessence. Sound health
is the elixir of the body; radiant know
ledge is the elixir of the mind, and pure
love of the heart.
''PHRNIX-LIKE, HE ARISES FROM his OWN
/ ASHES OF DEFEAT"
q The Phoenix, says Pliny, is bird of
Arabia, of the size of an eagle, and of
which there is never but one. It lives
five hundred years, and when it come to
its end, makes its nest of hot spices,
which being set on fire by the heat of
the sun, burns, and from its ashes arises
a worm, which afterward grows to be a
phoenix" The PhQniC Eiterarltn1 is
applied by the learned to Reuchlin, the
distinguished restorer of classical liter
ature in the fifteenth century. Tertul-
lion refers to this fabulous) bird as an
illustration of the resurrection.
| NoTA BBNK.
Mark well-pay particular attention.
Used in referring to some remarkable
object. In an abridged form: thus, n. B.
MAGNUs APOLLO.
'sThe AppoIIo," often used in reference
to men of distinguished greatness. Ap-
polio was one of the great Gods of
Greece-the God of the Sun, prophecy,
song, music.
! RsE DIxIT.
''He himself said it. -. q On his ipse
dixit, means, on his bare assertion.
The authority of the Grecian philoso-
.pher, Pythagoras, was SO great with his
disciples, that they never doubted any
| thing, he told them. Whenever they
were asked for the reason of what they
declared, they would answer, "Ipse
dixit, /. e., he said it. This is the origin
of the phrase.
COLOSSUS.
Huge, gigantic-is derived from COlos-
sus the famous Bronze Statue erected
by the Greeks, at the entrance of the
harbor at Rhodes Its form was that
of man, measuring 1O5 feet in height.
Ships sailed between its legs. Richter
has been called an intellectual Colossus.
nPRnLATUR.
Let it be printed-was phrase of per-
mission to print in countries, where the
press was under government control
Hence, the term is found on the title
page of old books.
ALB OvO UsQUE AID MALA.
Literally, from the eggs to the apples.
The phrase is derived from the custom
of the Romans, who began their dinner
with eggs and finished with apples.
Classical writer's use the phrase to sig
Nifty, From the beginning to the end Of
anything.
CURRENTE CALAAO..
With running pen, with great rapidi-
ty. Applied to anything written with
fuency and speed.
PHLIPPIC.
A severe personal castigatiOn. The
oratiOns of Demosthenes, the brilliant
orator of Greece, rousing the indigna-
tions of the Attentions against Philip,
king of Macedon, were called Philip
pics. The term is used now, to denote
a bitter, sarcastic, speech against politi-
cal opponent.
yEEI, vIDI, vICI.
'' I came, saw, I conquered" Julius
Caesar gained an easy victory over Phar-
naces in Asia Minor, and transmitted to
Rome an account of it, in these short
words. 1t is a classical way of express
ing an easy victory.
OYER AND TERNuNER.
A court of Oyer and Terminer is one
set apart to shear and determine" "
cases. Dyes is a corruption of Oyez,
Sc to heGr"-a word three times repeated
by public criers before making procla-
nation. Dyes Dyes y Dyes III means,
hear, hear, hear.
/ PALLADIUM.
"A protection. The liberty of the
press is called the Palladium Cthe safe
| ty) of the Republic. The Statue of
! PalIas. another name for Minerva, the
Goddess of wisdom, was given to Troy
with the statement, that so long as this
Statue was preserved, it would keep the
citv. Hence, Palladium was used to
mean that, which preserves anything.
The great Palladium Of our country Is
virtue and intelligence.
PAGAN.
/ LITERALLY, a village. The term pagan,
Cbeathen) is derived from the Latin
word pages a village. These villages
continued heather after the cities were
christianized, hence the inhabitants
we're called pagans, j. e. heathens.
LUEATIC.
From the Latin word Luna, (mOOn.)
| The term Ltslatic is based upon the
old idea that the moon exercises a bad