At length, being utterly beside myself with rage, I summoned one of the Phyllises and requested her to take steps to abate the nuisance, being met with a smiling "Nolo Episcopari.
It is a harmless enough, and rather neat, translation of Petronius, Noloquod cupio, &c.
Nolo episcopari=--I have no wish to be made a bishop.
Nolo barbam vellere mortuo leoni=--I won't pluck the beard of a dead lion.
Uxori nubere nolo meæ=--I will not marry a wife to be my master.
The nolo episcopari, though still in use, is so directly at variance with the tendency of all human wishes, that it cannot be thought to express the true aspirations of rising priests in the Church of England.
Oh, my aspiring pastors, divines to whose ears nolo episcopari are the sweetest of words, which of you would be a bishop on such terms as these?
Then for thy barren jest Take thou mine answer in bare commonplace-- Nolo episcopari.
Since the gravest Divine, Tells a lie worse than mine, When he cries, "Nolo Episcopari!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nolo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
