Crossword-Solution: FECERUNT 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

MARY’S CHURCH, OXFORD: THE FIRST HOME OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY] CHAPTER VI ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: OXFORD “Ingenia hominum rem publicam fecerunt.” § I Probably a few scribes plied their craft in Oxford in early days long before the students began to make a settlement, for the town had been a flourishing borough, one of the largest in England.

Myers observes that ‘the prediction of a great victory over the English within seven years was not fulfilled in any exact way.’ The words of the Maid are ‘Angli demittent majus vadium quam fecerunt coram Aurelianis,’ and, as prophecies go, their loss of Paris (1436) corresponds very well to the Maid’s announcement.

Exin diuulgato per cćteraa insulas rumore, quňd ei nulla Prouincia resistere poterat, Doldauius rex Gotlandić, & Gunfacius rex Orcadum vltro venerunt, promissóque vectigali subiectionem fecerunt.

Quoniam igitur Turcorum agmina ex iam factis prælijs cognouerant, non conforre sibi à fronte nobis repugnare, loci angustiam bonum subuentorem cum inuenissent, posteriora statuerunt inuadere agmina, quod et fecerunt.

Non libet enim mihi deplorare vitam, quod multi et ei docti saepe fecerunt, neque me vixisse paenitet, quoniam ita vixi, ut non frustra me natum existimem, et ex vita ita discedo tamquam ex hospitio, non tamquam e domo; commorandi enim natura divorsorium nobis, non habitandi dedit.