“Cum præsens est, imitantur illam, et desiderant eam cum se eduxerit ; et in perpetuum coronata triumphat, incoinquinatorum certaminum præmium vincens.”
“When it is present, men take example at it; and when it is gone, they desire it: it weareth a crown, and triumpheth for ever, having gotten the victory, striving for undefiled rewards.”
“When it is present, men imitate it; And they long after it when it is departed: And throughout all time it marcheth crowned in triumph, Victorious in the strife for the prizes that are undefiled.”
Itself. Virtue extorts the esteem even of worldlings. Antiochus wept for Onias, 2 Machabees iv. 37. (Calmet) — Sublatum ex oculis quærimus invidi. (Horace, iii. od. 24.) — Conflicts. In the cause of continence. (Calmet)