Crossword-Solution: PERIT 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

They anxiously study the defence of their country and their liberty; for these they fight, for these they undergo hardships, and for these willingly sacrifice their lives; they esteem it a disgrace to die in bed, an honour to die in the field of battle; using the poet’s expressions,— “Procul hinc avertite pacem, Nobilitas cum pace perit.” Nor is it wonderful if it degenerates, for the ancestors of these men, the Æneadæ, rushed to arms in the cause of liberty.

This our immoderate and illegitimate exasperation against this vice springs from the most vain and turbulent disease that afflicts human minds, which is jealousy: "Quis vetat apposito lumen de lumine sumi? Dent licet assidue, nil tamen inde perit;" ["Who says that one light should not be lighted from another light? Let them give ever so much, as much ever remains to lose."--Ovid, De Arte Amandi, iii.

This our immoderate and illegitimate exasperation against this vice springs from the most vain and turbulent disease that afflicts human minds, which is jealousy: “Quis vetat apposito lumen de lumine sumi? Dent licet assidue, nil tamen inde perit;” [“Who says that one light should not be lighted from another light? Let them give ever so much, as much ever remains to lose.”--Ovid, De Arte Amandi, iii.

Huc ranunculus, ipse arbos, pallorque ligustri, Quæque relicta perit, vixdum matura feratur Pnimula: quique ebeno distinctus, cætera flavet Flos, et qui specie nomen detrectat eburna.

For very often 'dum Romae disputatur Saguntum perit.' Nevertheless, it would be well for you to decide; and, in any event, I do not think it good that you should all take your departure, but that, on the contrary, you should leave some of your number here.