For when the hounds cross this country there are always "wigs on the green" in abundance; and in spite of barbed wire we may still sing with Horace, "Nec fortuitum spernere caespitem Leges sinebant," which, at the risk of offending all classical scholars, I must here translate: "Nor do the laws allow us to despise a chance tumble on the turf."
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs
Inter arma silent Leges.
"The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860"
Charles Duke Yonge
They inhabit the parts of Mount Caucasus that reach down to the Hyrcanian Sea, not immediately bordering upon the Albanians, for the Gelae and the Leges lie betwixt; and they keep company with these people yearly, for two months only, near the river Thermodon; after which they retire to their own habitations, and live alone all the rest of the year.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh