Crossword-Solution: VENTIS 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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.

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.

Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem; Non quia vexari quemquam est iucunda voluptas, Sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est.

Neither is that pleasure of small efficacy and contentment to the mind of man, which the poet Lucretius describeth elegantly:— “Suave mari magno, turbantibus æquora ventis, &c.” “It is a view of delight,” saith he, “to stand or walk upon the shore side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon the sea; or to be in a fortified tower, and to see two battles join upon a plain.

Monstrant id matres Carthaginenses, cum tertio bello Punico adolescentes quique lectissimi obsides in Siciliam mitterentur, quos illć fletu et lamentatione miserabili ad naues comitatć, et ex his qućdam ŕ filioram compleximus ćgrč diuulsć, cum ventis pandi vela cernerent, nauesque č portu egredi, dolore stimulante, in subiectos fluctus dissiluere: Sabellico authore.