Knowing as "the man in the street" (as we call him at Newmarket) always does, the greatest secrets of kings, and being the confidant of their most hidden thoughts.
No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.
The leader, mingling with the vulgar host,
Is with the common mass of matter lost!
Mobilium turba Quiritium.
The crowd of changeable citizens.
Horace—Odes. Bk. I. 1. 7.
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Spernere vulgus.
To scorn the ih-conditioned rabble.
Horace—Odes. Bk. II. 16, 39.
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
Favete linguis.
I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep
them at a distance. Favour me by your
tongues (keep silence).
Horace—Odes. Bk. III. 1. ("Favete linguis"
also found in Cicero, Ovid.)
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| text = <poem>Reason stands aghast at the sight of an "unprincipled, immoral, incorrigible" publick; And
the word of God abounds in such threats and
denunciations, as must strike terror into the
heart' of every believer.
Richard Hurd—Works. Vol. IV. Sermon 1.
Venale pecus.
The venal herd.
Juvenal—Satires. VIH. 62.
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| text = <poem>Paucite paucarum diffundere crimen in omnes.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that
is due to a few.
Ovid—Ars Amatoria. III. 9.
The people's voice is odd,
It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
Trust not the populace; the crowd is manyminded.
Pseudo-Phocyl. 89.
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| text = <poem>The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the
streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more
fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.
Proverbs, or the Maminl of Wisdom. On the
Title Pane. Printed for Tabart & Co.,
London. (1804)
The public is a bad guesser.
De Quincey—Essays. Protestantism.
Vox Populi, vox Dei.
The voice of the people, the voice of God.
Walter Reynolds, Archbishop of Canterbury. Text of Sermon when Edward III
ascended the throne, Feb. 1, 1327. (Called
also De Reynel and Reginald.) See
John Toland—Angelia Libera. Attributed
also to Walter Mephan. See G. C. Lewis
—Essay on Influence of Authority. P. 172.
See Aphorismi Politici, (Simon given erroneously for Walter.) Collected by Lambertum Dan^um. Alluded to as an old
proverb by William of Malmesbury—De
Gestis Pont. Folio 114. (About 920)
Hesiod—Works and Days. 763.
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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign,
Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain?
Vain as the leaf upon the stream,
And fickle as a changeful dream;
Fantastic as a woman's mood,
And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood—
Thou many-headed monster thing,
Oh, who would wish to be thy king?
Scott—Lady of the Lake. Canto V. St. 30.
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Faith, there have been many great men that
have flattered the people, who ne'er loved them;
and there be many that they have loved, they
know not wherefore; so that, if they love they
know not why, they hate upon no better a
ground.
Corwlanvs. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 7.
He himself stuck not to call us the manyheaded multitude.
Coriolanus. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 14.
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| text = <poem>The play, I remember, pleased not the million; 'twas caviare to the general.
Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 456.
Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro
as this multitude?
Henry VI. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 8. L. 57.
Look, as I blow this feather from my face,
And as the air blows it to me again,
Obeying with my wind when I do blow,
And yielding to another when it blows,
Commanded always by the greater gust;
Such is the lightness of you common men.
Henry VI. Pt. III. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 85.
Many-headed multitude.
Sir Phild? Sidney—Arcadia. Bk. n.
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| text = <poem>Laymen say, indeed,
How they take no heed
Their sely sheep to feed.
But pluck away and pull
The fleeces of their wool.
