Part 103 (2/2)

Eolus, angry with the winds and storms which had thrown the sea into commotion without his sanction, was going to say he would punish them severely for this act of insubordination; but having uttered the first two words, ”Whom I----,” he says no more, but proceeds to the business in hand.--Virgil, _aeneid_, i.

”Next Monday,” said he, ”you will be a 'substance,' and then----;”

with which _quos ego_ he went to the next boy.--Dasent, _Half a Life_ (1850).

=Quo'tem= (_Caleb_), a parish clerk or Jack-of-all-trades.--G. Colman, _The Review, or The Ways of Windsor_.

I resolved like Caleb Quotem, to have a place at the review.--Was.h.i.+ngton Irving.

=R= Neither Demosthenes nor Aristotle could p.r.o.nounce the letter _r_.

_R_ (_rogue_), vagabonds, etc., who were branded on the left shoulder with this letter.

They ... may be burned with a hot burning iron, of the breadth of a s.h.i.+lling, with a great Roman R on the left shoulder, which letter shall remain as a mark of a rogue.--Pyrnne,[TN-115] _Histriomastix_, or _The Player's Scourge_.

If I escape the halter with the letter R Printed upon it.

Ma.s.singer, _A New Way to Pay Old Debts_, iv. 2 (1629).

=Rab'agas=, an advocate and editor of a journal called the _Carmagnole_.

At the same office was published another radical paper, called the _c.r.a.paud Volant_. Rabagas lived in the kingdom of Monaco, and was a demagogue leader of the deepest red; but was won over to the king's party by the tact of an American lady, who got him an invitation to dine at the palace, and made him chief minister of state. From this moment he became the most strenuous opponent of the ”liberal” party.--M. Sardou, _Rabagas_ (1872).

=Rabbi Jehosha=, wise teacher, whose good words are recorded in James Russell Lowell's poem ”_What Rabbi Jehosha Said_.”

=Rabbi Abron of Trent=, a fict.i.tious sage, and most wonderful linguist.

”He knew the nature of all manner of herbs, beasts and minerals.”--_Reynard the Fox_, xii. (1498).

=Rabelais= (_The English_). Dean Swift was so called by Voltaire (1667-1745).

Sterne (1713-1768) and Thomas Amory (1699-1788) have also been so called.

_Rabelais_ (_The Modern_), William Maginn (1794-1842).

=Rabelais of Germany=, J. Fischart, called ”Mentzer” (1550-1614).

=Rabelais's Poison.= Rabelais, being at a great distance from Paris, and without money to pay his hotel bill or his fare, made up three small packets of brick-dust. One he labelled ”Poison for the king,” another, ”Poison for monsieur,” and the third, ”Poison for the dauphin.” The landlord instantly informed against this ”poisoner,” and the secretary of state removed him at once to Paris. When, however, the joke was found out, it ended only in a laugh.--_Spectator_ (”Art of Growing Rich”).

=Rab'ican= or =Rabica'no=, the horse of Astolpho. Its sire was Wind and its dam Fire. It fed on human food. The word means ”short tail.”--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).

? Argalia's horse is called by the same name in _Orlando Innamorato_ (1495).

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