rious churches of Italy, pictures of the Virgin Mary
said to have been painted by Saint Luke (a painter as well as a
physician, and the patron saint of both professions) are preserved,
but no one of them has any fame above the rest.

=Remember, Thou Art Mortal!= When a Roman conqueror entered the city in
triumph, a slave was placed in the chariot to whisper from time to time
into the ear of the conqueror, "Remember, thou art a man!"

Vespasian, the Roman emperor, had a slave who said to him daily as he
left his chamber, "Remember, thou art a man!"

In the ancient Egyptian banquets it was customary during the feast to
draw a mummy, in a car, round the banquet hall, while one uttered aloud,
"To this estate you must come at last!"

When the sultan of Serendib (_i.e._ Ceylon) went abroad, his vizier
cried aloud, "This is the great monarch, the tremendous sultan of the
Indies ... greater than Solimo or the grand Mihrag[^e]!" An officer behind
the monarch then exclaimed, "This monarch, though so great and powerful,
must die, must die, must die!"--_Arabian Nights_ ("Sindbad," sixth
voyage).

=Remois= (2 _syl._), the people of Rheims, in France.

=Remond=, a shepherd in _Britannia's Pastorals_, by William Browne (1613).

Remond, young Remond, that full well could sing,
And tune his pipe at Pan's birth carolling;
Who, for his nimble leaping, sweetest layes,
A laurell garland wore on holidayes;
In framing of whose hand Dame Nature swore,
There never was his like, nor should be more.

_Pastoral_, i.

=Rem'ores=, birds which retard the execution of a project.

"Remores" aves in auspicio dicuntur quae acturum aliquid remorari
compellunt.--Festus, _De VerborumSignificatione_.[TN-121]

=Remus.= (See ROMULUS AND REMUS.)

_Remus_ (_Uncle_). Hero of many of Joel Chandler Harris's tales of
negro-life. His fables of "Brer Rabbit," "Brer Bear," and the like are
curious relics of African folk-lore (1886).

=Re'naud=, one of the paladins of Charlemagne, always described with the
properties of a borderer, valiant, alert, ingenious, rapacious, and
unscrupulous. Better known in the Italian form _Rinaldo_ (_q.v._).

=Renault=, a Frenchman, and one of the chief conspirators in which Pierre
was concerned. When Jaffier joined the conspiracy, he gave his wife,
Belvide'ra, as surety of his fidelity, and a dagger to be used against
her if he proved unfaithful. Renault a