Sister, you are doing after your usual manner. EUNOMIA I wish it were done. MEGADORUS What is it, sister? EUNOMIA That you may enjoy That you may enjoy : Quod tibi sempiternum salutare sit. This was a formula frequently introduced in announcing intelligence, or in making a proposition, and was considered to be significant of a good omen. everlasting blessings in being the father of children. MEGADORUS May the Gods so grant it. EUNOMIA I wish you to bring home a wife. Part of line 149 in the Latin. MEGADORUS Ha! I’m undone. EUNOMIA How so? MEGADORUS Because, sister, your words are knocking out the brains of unfortunate me; you are speaking stones You are speaking stones : So Shakspeare says, in Hamlet, Act III., sc. 2, I will speak daggers to her, but use none. Aristophanes says, in one of his plays, You have spoken roses to me. .