No doubt young John and Alexander treasured this piece of youthful audacity as a precious tradition to be told and retold to admiring schoolmates at Montem dinner, under the shadow of Eton Towers.
The word is derived from the Latin "Montem video" the final m inmontem having been dropped to facilitate pronunciation.
I have been thus particular in my description of him, because he is always at Montem time an object of much curiosity; and to every Etonian of the last thirty years, his peculiarities must have frequently afforded amusement.
After a glass, Herbert recited with great gesture and action, but in a very imperfect manner, the Montem ode; and then for a few minutes seemed quite exhausted.
A Sketch from the Life, as he appeared in the Montem Procession of May, 1823.
We had now become quite familiar with the old man, and went with him to view his Montem car and Arabian pony, as he called them, in a stable adjoining the house.
Till the time of Doctor Barnard, the procession of the Montem was every two years, and on the first or second Tuesday in February.
Atque vltrà montem in discensu eius in orientem est villa siue castellum Bethaniæ, distans quasi ad leucam ab vrbe vbi in domo cuiusdam Symonis inuitatu Christus condonauit omnia peccata Mariæ Magdalenæ.
Et ambulavit in fortisudine cibi illius usque ad Montem Oreb: that is to seyne, And he wente in strength of that mete, unto the hille of God, Oreb.
Legimus Apostolorum miracula, nusquam autem legimus arborem ab his arefactam, aut montem in mare translatum; quaeramus ergo in mysterio ubi factum sit, non enim Verba Domini vacare potuerant.
I have money sent me for my Montem dress, and I can squeeze that much out of it.
And a cursed fine dust we should kick up at Oxford, with your Montem money and all!
Mrs. Talbot, you look but poorly; but thisMontem will put everybody in spirits.
And I hope, for YOUR sake, we may have as fine a day for the Montem to-morrow.
The Montem is put off from Monday till Wednesday, for the convenience of their Majesties, who are to be there.
Montem at Eton was a school holiday, an "event," as we should now say, of the London season.
In this connection it is pleasant to think that flowers seen in the hats on the Fourth of June are a survival of the green branches and garlands that were once brought back each year from the Montem expedition.
Of Montem as an institution he thought extremely ill, 'the whole thing a wretched waste of time and money, a most ingenious contrivance to exhibit us as baboons, a bore in the full sense of the word.
Will you allow me, as an old Etonian, to ask the derivation of "salt," as it used to be applied to the money collected at Eton Montemfor the Captain of the Colleges?
A brief account of the origin of Montem would be interesting; and it is especially worth noting now that the pageant is suppressed.
Jesus therefore when he cognovisset, quia venturi knew that they would come to essent ut raperent eum, et take him by force and make him facerent eum regem, fugit king, fled again into the iterum in montem ipse solus.
On the other hand, the Eton Ad Montem ceremony has the look of genuine descent from the older festival, with which it has numerous features in common.
And I hope, for your sake, we may have as fine a day for the Montem to-morrow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "montem" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
