Talk:Matthew Paris

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  • Armato supplicat ense potens. [The man in power begs with a drawn sword.]
    • AD 1237, quoting "the saying of the poet"
  • Rex largitur opes, fert præsul opem, lapicidæ
    Dant operam; tribus his est opus, ut stet opus.

    [The king finds money, the stonemason hands,
    The bishop aids, and so the building stands.]
    • AD 1237, quoting "some versifier"
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