Crossword-Solution: FUI 3 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

And the prophecy of David saith thus: _Quadraginta annis proximus fui generationi huic_; that is to say, ‘Forty year was I neighbour to this kindred.’ And thus should it seem that the prophecies were not true.

Obedient, therefore, to my Superior, I wrote, in this our cell of Pluscarden, a Latin book containing the histories of times past, but when I came to tell of matters wherein, as Maro says, "pars magna fui," I grew weary of such rude, barbarous Latin as alone I am skilled to indite, for of the manner Ciceronian, as it is now practised by clerks of Italy, I am not master: my book, therefore, I left unfinished, breaking off in the middle of a sentence.

For example:--"Quoe itaque de Minima Actionis in modificationibus modum obtinente in genere proferuntur vehementer laudo;" "continent nempe facundum longeque pulcherrimum Dynamices sublimioris principium, cujus vim in difficillimis quoestionibus soepe expertus fui."--] By way of finis to the Paper, there is given, what proves extremely important to us, an Excerpt from an old LETTER OF LEIBNITZ'S; which perhaps it will be better to present here IN CORPORE, as so much turned on it afterwards.

The young Cardinal Jacopo di Portogallo dies on a visit to Florence--insignis forma fui et mirabili modestia--his epitaph dares to say.

WINCKELMANN ET EGO IN ARCADIA FUI Goethe's fragments of art-criticism contain a few pages of strange pregnancy on the character of Winckelmann.