ROOK ROME
ROOK
Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night,
They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,
And wrangle and jangle, and plunder.
Invite the rook who high amid the boughs.
In early spring, his airy city builds,
And ceaseless caws amusive.
Thomson—The Seasons. Spring. L. 756.
Where in venerable rows
Widely waving oaks enclose
The moat of yonder antique hall,
Swarm the rooks with clamorous call;
And, to the toils of nature true,
Wreath their capacious nests anew.
Warton—Ode X.
ROME
Si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more;
Si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi.
If you are at Rome live in the Roman style;
if you are elsewhere live as tbey live elsewhere.
St. Ambrose to St. Augustine. Quoted by
Jeremy Taylor. Ductor Dvbitantium. I.
I. 5.
When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do;
when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise
you, whatever church you come to, observe the
custom of the place, if you would neither give
offence to others, nor take offence from them.
Another version of St. Ambrose's advice.
When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday:
when I am at Milan I do not. Do the same.
Follow the custom of the church where you are.
St. Augustine gives this as the advice of St.
Ambrose to him. See Epistle to Januarius.
II. 18. Also Epistle 36.
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| text = <poem>Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome
inter,
And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher.
To show us where she stood there rests alone
Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone.
Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide
away;
And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.
Joachim du Bellay—Antiquitez de Rome.
(Third stanza of this poem taken from
Janus Vitalis.) Trans, by William
Browne, from a Latin version of the same
by Janus Vitalis—In Urbem Romam
Qualis est hodie. See Gordon Goodwin's
ed. of Poems of William Browne. Trans,
also by Spenser, in Complaints.
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
Robert Browning—Ring and the Book. V.
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When they are at Rome, they do there as
they see done.
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| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
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Rome! my country! city of the soul!
Byron—CAiZde Harold. Canto IV. St. 78.
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;
And when Rome falls—the World.
Byron—Childe Harold. Canto IV St. 145.
You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome
would be eternal.
Augustus Cesar to Piso. See Plutarch—
Apothegms. "Eternal Rome" said by
Tibullus. II. 5. 23. Repeated by Ammianus Marcellinus—Rerum Gestarum.
XVI. Ch.X. 14.
Cuando i, Roma fueres, haz como vieres.
When you are at Rome, do as you see.
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| text = <poem>Y a Roma por todo.
To Rome for everything.
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Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis
Proditor unus iners angusto tempore vertit.
What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.
Claudianus—In Rufinum. II. 52.
Veuve d'un peuple-roi, mais reine encore du
monde.
[Rome] Widow of a King-people, but still
queen of the world.
Gabriel Gilbert'—Papal Rome.
Rome, Rome, thou art no more
As thou hast been!
On thy seven hills of yore
Thou sat'st a queen.
Mrs. Hemans—Roman Girl's Song.
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| text = Omitte mirari beatffi
Fumum et opes strepitumque Romae.
Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise
of prosperous Rome.
Horace—Carmina. III. 29. 11.
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| num = | text = <poem>In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge.
A coin unsordid as a bond of love— And, with the instinct of the homing dove,
gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge.
And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above. Robert Underwood Johnson—Italian RhapTous chemins vont a Rome; ainsi nos concurrents Crurent pouvoir choisir des sentiers differents. All roarls lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. La Fontaine—Le .luge, Arbitre. Fable XII. OQ A
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