| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: occupatis itinere exercitum prohibere conantur. Compluribus his proeliis
pulsis ab Ocelo, quod est citerioris provinciae extremum, in
fines Vocontiorum ulterioris provinciae die septimo pervenit; inde in
Allobrogum fines, ab Allobrogibus in Segusiavos exercitum ducit. Hi sunt
extra provinciam trans Rhodanum primi.
Helvetii iam per angustias et fines Sequanorum suas copias traduxerant
et in Haeduorum fines pervenerant eorumque agros populabantur. Haedui,
cum se suaque ab iis defendere non possent, legatos ad Caesarem mittunt
rogatum auxilium: ita se omni tempore de populo Romano meritos esse ut
paene in conspectu exercitus nostri agri vastari, liberi [eorum] in
servitutem abduci, oppida expugnari non debuerint. Eodem tempore
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: in them by the apparent reality, simplicity, and sufficiency of the
cause assumed, as it at present appears to my mind. As soon as I
have submitted these views to a close consideration, and the test of
accordance with observation, and, where applicable, with experiments
also, I will do myself the honour to bring them before the Royal
Society.'
Two elaborate memoirs are then devoted to the subject of Atmospheric
Magnetism; the first sent to the Royal Society on the 9th of October,
and the second on the 19th of November, 1850. In these memoirs he
discusses the effects of heat and cold upon the magnetism of the
air, and the action on the magnetic needle, which must result from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: [3] Phasian or Carchedonian. Cf. Pollux, v. 26.
[4] {arkus, enodia, diktua}.
[5] [L. Dind. brackets.] See Pollux, v. 27, ap. Schn.
[6] {spithame}, a span (dodrans) = 7 1/2 inches. Herod. ii. 106;
{trispithamos}, Hes. "Op." 424; Plat. "Alc." i. 126 C; Aristot.
"H. A." viii. 28. 5; Polyb. v. 3-6.
[7] {to megethos}.
[8] Or, "eight fingers' breadth +" = 6 inches +. {palaiste} or
{palaste}, a palm or four fingers' breadth = 3 inches +.
[9] {tous brokhous}, a purse or tunnel arrangement with slip loop.
[10] Reading {upheisthosan de oi peridromoi anammatoi}. Lit. "the
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