 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 320 pages
...the northern prejudices suppose it. \No date.~\ A NEW CONSTITUTION. — This epigram in Martial— " Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te " — * * Thus Englished by the famous Tom Brown : " I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, the reason... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1893 - 330 pages
...amo: cf. Ov. Am. II, 4. 5 odi nec possum cupiens non esse quod odi. 2. nescio, etc. : cf. Mart. I. 32 Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare : hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te ; and its imitation by Tom Brown, / do not love thee. Dr. Fell, etc. 86. On the inferiority... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Robert Arrowsmith - 1894 - 272 pages
...una duos. Iam secura 8 potes totis tussire diebus : Nil istic quod agat tertia tussis habet. i. 32. Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare : Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. i. 47. Nuper erat medicus, nunc est vispillo1 Diaulus: Quod vispillo facit, fecerat et medicus.... | |
 | Frederick Thomas Elworthy - 1895 - 496 pages
...feeling we cannot call mere prejudice, viewed from either side of the attraction we now call fascination. Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare ; Hoc tantum possum dicere — non amo te ! 177 is but the old-world form of our modern I do not love you, Dr. Fell ! The reason why,... | |
 | Thomas Benfield Harbottle - 1897 - 670 pages
...diligcntiam. " PLINY THE ELDER. Natural History, XXXV., 86, 10. "Too great assiduity is often harmful." " Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te." MARTIAL. Epigrams, L, 32 (33), 1. "I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1897 - 168 pages
...RESPECTABLE HOTTENTOT*' LONDON, Feb. the 28th, OS 1751. 5 MY DEAR FRIEND: This epigram in Martial, " Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te ; " has puzzled a great many people; who cannot conceive how it is possible not to love anybody,... | |
 | Herbert Cushing Tolman - 1900 - 88 pages
...a friend indeed To pardon or to bear it Very cleverly has Rabutin translated Martial's epigram: — Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere; non amo te. Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas; Je n'en saurais dire la cause; Je sais seulement une chose, C'est... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus - 1900 - 334 pages
...part. The epigram alluded to is Martial's, and the person who is its object, Sabidius ; i. 33 : — Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare ; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. As to the famous English adaptation of the epigram, a correspondent of Notes and Queries says... | |
 | Hugh Percy Jones - 1900 - 570 pages
...here unless you are a Lord." + The expression has become a proverbial one to indicate mock modesty. Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere ; non amo te. — Martial. Non compos mentis. Non constat. Non convivere licet, nee urbe tola Quisquam est... | |
 | David Hutchison MacGregor - 1901 - 152 pages
...helplessness, as Mr M orison says, could go no further. He disliked Boswell as Martial disliked Sabidius : — Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. Nor is his aversion to Xenophon any better founded. He was a "good young man" who " had a weak... | |
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Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te " — * * Thus Englished by the famous Tom Brown : 
