Crossword-Solution: MENTIS 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

This singer, also, had an unworthy mistress, but he did not choose to share the wages of dishonour; and it is thus, with both wit and pathos, that he laments her fall:— Nunc plango florem Ætatis teneræ Nitidiorem Veneris sidere: Tunc columbinam Mentis dulcedinem, Nunc serpentinam Amaritudinem.

The satirist [Persius] exclaims, “Mille hominum species et mentis discolor usus; Velle suum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno.” “Nature is ever various in her name; Each has a different will, and few the same.” The comic poet also says, “_Quot capita tot sententiæ_, _suus cuique mos est_.” “As many men, so many minds, each has his way.” Young soldiers exult in war, and pleaders delight in the gown; others aspire after riches, and think them the supreme good.

Why, then, all’s obliterated, Sir Sampson, if he be _non compos mentis_; his act and deed will be of no effect, it is not good in law.

His son is _non compos mentis_, and thereby incapable of making any conveyance in law; so that all his measures are disappointed.

Their ideal, he says, was: ‘Aliquid in stylo proprium, quod peculiarem ex certâ notâ mentis effigiem referret, ex naturae genio effinxisse.’ Politian, when in a hurry, objected to write his letters in Latin.