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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Rumor |
| Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores. Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions. Lucan—Pharsalia. I. 469. | 1 |
| Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor. Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard. Ovid—Metamorphoses. XII. 57. | 2 |
| Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt. Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. Plautus—Persa. III. 1. 23. | 3 |
| The flying rumours gather’d as they roll’d, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. Pope—Temple of Fame. L. 468. | 4 |
| I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as ’twas said to me. Scott—Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto II. St. 22. | 5 |
| I will be gone: That pitiful rumour may report my flight, To coasolate thine ear. All’s Well That Ends Well. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 129. | 6 |
| Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act I. Induction. L. 15. | 7 |
| Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the fear’d. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 97. | 8 |
| The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies. Swift—Tr. of Ovid. Examiner, No. 15. | 9 |
| What some invent the rest enlarge. Swift—Journal of a Modern Lady. | 10 |
| Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet. Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. Syrus—Maxims. | 11 |
| Haud semper erret fama; aliquando et elegit. Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man. Tacitus—Agricola. IX. | 12 |
| There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly. Terence—Phormio. Act IV. | 13 |
| Tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. I Timothy. V. 13. | 14 |
| Extemplo Libyæ magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum; Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo; Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit. * * * * * * Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumæ Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu, Tot linguæ, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures. Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;—the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. * * * A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. Vergil—Æneid. IV. 173. | 15 |
| Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem. The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town. Vergil—Æneid. VIII. 554. | 16 |
| Linguæ centum sunt, oraque centum Ferrea vox. It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. Vergil—Georgics. II. 44. (Adapted.) | 17 |
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