_The Word "Repudiate"_ (Vol. iv., p. 54.).--That the use of the word _repudiate_, in the sense of refuse, repel, reject, abandon, disown, cast off, is by no means modern; and that such phrases as "I repudiate the idea," "I repudiate the sentiment," "I repudiate the proposal," are strictly correct, is evident from the use of the word by "standard classical authors" in the original language from which it has come down to us. Sallust, for instance, in his _History of Catiline's Conspiracy_, says that Lentulus advised him to seek assistance everywhere, even amongst the dregs of the populace; asking him at the same time, "Why, since the senate had already adjudged him to be an enemy to the republic, he should _repudiate the slaves_?" i. e., refuse to enrol them in his levies. "Cum ab senatu hostis judicatus sit, quo consilio _servitia repudiet_?"--_Sall. Cat._ 44. Cicero, in his Offices, in opposition to the opinion of the peripatetic school, that anger is implanted in us by nature for useful ends, lays it down as a principle, that "on all occasions _anger ought to be repudiated_;" that is, "cast out of the mind," and says that "it is to be wished that persons who are at the head of the state should be like the laws, which inflict punishment not in anger but in justice." "_Illa_ (iracundia) vero omnibus in rebus _repudianda est_."--_Cic. de Off._ I. xxv. 13. Cicero knew nothing of the Christian grace of "being angry and sinning, not;" he knew nothing of the severity of love. In another place he tells us that on one occasion Themistocles declared in the Athenian assembly, that he had a plan to propose which would be of great advantage to the state, but ought not to be made public. He was willing, however, to communicate it to any one person whom they might select. Aristides, rightly named the Just, being the person selected, Themistocles disclosed his plan to him: which was, secretly to set fire to the Lacedæmonian fleet in the dockyard of Gytheum, by which means they would effectually crush the power of the Lacedæmonians. Aristides returned to the assembly, and at once declared that Themistocles' plan was certainly very advantageous, but by no means honourable; whereupon the Athenians, rightly considering that what was not attended with honour, could not be attended even with advantage in reality, without hearing another word, "_repudiated the whole affair_;" that is, utterly rejected the proposal. "Itaque Athenienses, quod honestum non esset, id ne utile quidem putaverunt; _totamque eam rem_, quam ne audierant quidem, auctore Aristide, _repudiaverunt_."--_Cic. de Off._ III. xi. 12.