[Latin] non hos quaesitum munus in usus [Notes] Virgil, Aeneid, 4:647, of the sword with which Dido will commit suicide. "Not for so dire an enterprise design’d." (Dryden trans.; 1697)[58] "A gift asked for no use like this." (Mackail trans.; 1885).[59] "Ne'er given for an end so dire." (Taylor trans.; 1907)[60] "A gift not asked for use like this!" (Williams trans.; 1910).[61] Quoted by Francis Bacon of the civil law, "not made for the countries it governeth". [Translation] 
A gift sought for no such purpose