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Lord Campbell to quote the lines which he has applied to a modern successor of the Bishop in the marble chair:—
Quisquis theologus, quisquis legista peritus
Visgieri; multos semper habeto libros.
Non tu mente manet quicquid non vidimus ipsi.
Quisque sibilibros Vendicet ergo.—Vale.
He founded a public library at Oxford for the use of students. His numerous lucrative appointments would but for his charities and purchases of books have enabled him to have made a prodigious fortune for the time in which he lived. However, as he himself informs us—
"If we would have amassed cups of gold and silver, excellent horses, or no mean sums of money, we could in those days have laid up abundance of wealth for ourselves. But we preferred in good truth books, not pounds, codices rather than florins, and would rather have pamphlets than pampered palfreys."[1]
He died A.D. 1345.
Appendix B.
(b) Janus, a Latin Divinity, who presided over the beginning of all things, represented with two faces, one looking backward on the past, the other forward on the future[2] Numa Pompilius, in his regulation of the Roman an year, called the first month Januarius.
When the Roman City on the Palatine Hill, and the Sabine City on the Quirinal were united, a gate with double door was built as a barrier between them. This, in later times, was called a Temple, Janus Geminos-Bifrons-Quirinus, Consivius, Martialis, Patuleius, Clausius. It contained a statue of Janus.