Crossword-Solution: BREVIS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Thereon I rise and wait on him; to be brief—_brevis esse laboro_, as we said lang syne—his lordship would have me to be of his backers in private rencontre with four gentlemen of the King’s Musketeers.

Donnelly, ‘to Catullus.’ He quotes:-- Soles occidere et redire possunt; Nobis, cum semel occidit brevis lux, Nox est perpetuo una dormienda.

But soles are not ‘lights,’ and brevis lux is not ‘brief candle.’ If they were, the passages have no resemblance.

ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS--were it not a sin to call the divine science of the law by the inferior name of art.’ So my lamp did burn, dear Darsie, the next morning, though the owner took the risk of a domiciliary visitation, and lay snug in bed, trusting its glimmer might, without further inquiry, be received as sufficient evidence of his vigilance.

But enough of this, for there is truth in the old saying: 'Si brevis esse volo, obscurus fio', and I believe that, without offending against modesty, I can apply to myself the following words of my dear Virgil: 'Nec sum adeo informis: nuper me in littore vidi Cum placidum ventis staret mare.' The chief business of my life has always been to indulge my senses; I never knew anything of greater importance.