macte

Practice alone makes perfect: _macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra_.

The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

To return to Rome, and to the prayers in Cato's book, to which I referred just now when discussing the word _macte_.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

We find this _macte esto_ again in the prayer for the ceremony of lustratio, at the end of the formula: "_macte hisce suovetaurilibus lactentibus immolandis esto_."

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

The form of prayer accompanying the sacrifice is preserved in the inscription; it is Latin in language and form, as dry and concise as any we examined in my lectures on ritual, and contains the _macte esto_ which I was then at pains to explain.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

That these formulae were taken from the books of the pontifices is almost certain, not only from the internal evidence of the prayers themselves, but because Servius (Interpol.) on _Aen. _ ix. 641 quotes the words: "macte hoc vino inferio esto," which occur in 132, introducing them thus: "et in pontificalibus sacrificantes dicebant deo ...."

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

The first is at the time of the flowering of the pear-trees, on behalf of the oxen: "Iuppiter dapalis, quod tibi fieri oportet in domo familia mea culignam vini dapi eius rei [381] ergo, _macte hac illace dape polucenda esto_."

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

So in the piacular sacrifice when a clearing is made, the unknown deity is addressed in the last words of the prayer thus: "harum rerum ergo _macte hoc porco piaculo immolando esto_."

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

_Aen. _ ix. 641, "macte nova virtute puer, sic itur ad astra," etc., and many other passages.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

They evince, on the whole, a far greater acquaintance with the English classic-models, and with the laws of rhyme and melody, than could have been expected from a young man of your class -- _macte virtute puer_.

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

157 Elsewhere in the Aeneid we find the phrase "macte nova virtute, puer: sic itur ad astra."

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008