A few touches in the poem-as, for instance, the expressions, 'niveis manibus,' 'roseis labellis,' and 'Ego gymnasii FUI flos,'-all introduced incidentally,-force upon the mind the contrast between the tender youth and beauty of Attis and the fierce power of the passion that possesses him.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Non FUI, FUI; non sum, non curo; 4807, 7407, 7387. 1446 Ib.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
She was a noble teak built ship of twelve or thirteen hundred tons burden, had excellent accommodation, and carried over to merry old England, a very merry party of passengers, quorum parva pars FUI, a youngster just emerged from college.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton