"Custos" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... conditam, partim herbescentem, partim 130 iam flavam, partim horreo compositam depascerentur. Accessit ingens ex coelo calamitas, grandinis et venti vis tanta ut quernis roboribus aequales culmi illi stipulae aridae in morem defringerentur. Angelus ille custos mutatus atque, quod hominibus faveret, humano corpori 135 inclusus. Caym, cum Deum incensis frugibus placare studeret, nec fumus subvolaret, certam illius ...
— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus
... pharetram ad partem mulierum. Et super caput Domini est semper vna imago quasi puppa et statuuncula de filtro, quam vocant fratrem domini: alia similis super caput domina, quam vocant fratrem domina, affixa parieti: et superius inter vtramque illarum est vna paruula, macilenta, qua est quasi custos totius domus. Domina domus ponit ad latus suum dextrum ad pedes lecti in eminenti loco pelliculam hoedinam impletam lana vel alia materia, et iuxta illam statuunculam paruulam respicientem famulas et mulieres. Iuxta ostium ad partem mulieris ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt
... Swynford, miles, custos castri villae Calisii et Nicholaus de Rysshetoun, utriusque juris professor." They admit that French is the language of treatises; but Latin was used by St. Jerome. They write to the duchess of Burgundy: "Et quamvis treugae generales inter Angliam et Franciam per Dominos et Principes ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
... now I'm grac'd with unexpected honours, For which I'll certainly abuse the donors: Knighted, and made a tribune of the people, Whose laws and properties I'm like to keep well: The custos rotulorum of the city, And captain of the guards of their banditti. Surrounded by my catchpoles, I declare Against the needy debtor open war. I hang poor thieves for stealing of your pelf, And suffer none to ...
— The True-Born Englishman - A Satire • Daniel Defoe
... in touch with the Acting Custos of Latins, and the Greek representative has been detailed to supervise ...
— How Jerusalem Was Won - Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine • W.T. Massey
... pinching his chin, "an I am neither hanged nor murdered you shall one day find me a worshipful magistrate, Martin, Justice o' the Peace and quorum—custos rotulorum and the rest on't, there my ambition lies. As for you, Martin, Lord Wendover, there is your enemy, ha?—bloody vengeance and murder and ...
— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol
... Bowland est tumulatus Vir pius et gratus et ab omnibus hinc peramatus Custos parcorum praestans quondam fuit horum De Merdon, quorum et Wintoniae dominorum. Hic quinqgenis hinc octenis rite deemptis Cum plausu gentis ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge
... formed two altars in the conventual church of his new appointment, besides two vases of blood and parts of Becket's clothing." Still more striking and characteristic of the prevalent passion for relics is the story of Roger, who was keeper of the "Altars of the Martyrdom," or "Custos Martyrii." The brothers of St. Augustine's Abbey were so eager to obtain a share in the glory which their great rival, the neighbouring cathedral, had won from the circumstances of Becket's martyrdom within ...
— The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. • Hartley Withers
... the Lane "received the name of Chancellor's Lane in the time of Edward I. The way was so foul and miry that John le Breton, Custos of London, and the Bishop of Chichester, kept bars with staples across it to prevent carts from passing. The roadway was repaired in the reign of Edward III., and acquired its present name under ...
— Holborn and Bloomsbury - The Fascination of London • Sir Walter Besant
... chamber had two stories; the lower contained cupboards, in which vestments and relics were kept, these are now filled with various antiquarian curiosities, Roman pottery from Verulamium, architectural fragments, etc. An oaken staircase leads up into the chamber where the "custos feretri" sat watching the shrine day and night, guard of course being changed at intervals. It must have been trying work watching there during the night-time in frosty weather, but monks were accustomed ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans - With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey • Thomas Perkins
... here," said Onslow, at the Surry County meeting, "as the Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county, but I come here as a plain country gentleman." The fact is, that he came there as what he was, and as no other, and consequently he came as one of the beings I have been describing. If it be the character of a gentleman to be fed by the public, as a pauper ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine
... his auspices they thrived exceedingly.' For a short time the earldom was bestowed on Piers Gaveston; Thomas Cromwell and some others had a lease of the lead-mines on the moor for twenty-one years; the first Earl of Bedford was 'Custos of the Forest or Chase of Dartmoor'; and Sir Walter Raleigh was appointed Ranger and Master Forester, besides being Lord Warden of the Stannaries. The first perambulation of the forest boundaries probably took ...
— Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts • Rosalind Northcote
... sed puerum est ausus Romam portare docendum artis quas doceat quivis eques atque senator semet prognatos. Vestem servosque sequentis, in magno ut populo, si qui vidisset, avita ex re praeberi sumptus mihi crederet illos. Ipse mihi custos incorruptissimus ...
— The Student's Companion to Latin Authors • George Middleton
... te servassint semper, custos erilis, decus popli, thensaurus copiarum, salus interioris[24] corporis amorisque imperator. hic pone, hic istam colloca cruminam in ...
— Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi • Plautus Titus Maccius
... ad partem mulierum. Et super caput Domini est semper vna imago quasi puppa et statuuncula de filtro, quam vocant fratrem domini: alia similis super caput domin, quam vocant fratrem domin, affixa parieti: et superius inter vtramque illarum est vna paruula, macilenta, qu est quasi custos totius domus. Domina domus ponit ad latus suum dextrum ad pedes lecti in eminenti loco pelliculam hoedinam impletam lana vel alia materia, et iuxta illam statuunculam paruulam respicientem famulas et mulieres. Iuxta ostium ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt
... with his account, Captain Lonsdale said he had not cash on hand to pay it, and deducted twenty pounds, which he sent to Port Albert afterwards, when the Government had recovered its solvency. His Honour the Superintendent might have assumed the classical motto, "Custos sum ...
— The Book of the Bush • George Dunderdale
... Die Februarii mortuus est Gilbert Gerard, Miles, et Custos Rotulorium Serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae; et sepultus 6 ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 • Various |
