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.), and the maxim was a favourite one with the Stoic philosophers.

CICERO. 106-43 B. C.

For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight.[705-4]

_De Oratore. 78._

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.[705-5]

_De Divinatione. i. 118._

He is never less at leisure than when at leisure.[705-6]

_De Officiis. iii. 1._

While the sick man has life there is hope.[705-7]

_Epistolarum ad Atticum. ix. 10, 4._

FOOTNOTES:

[705-4] See Thomson, page 356.

[705-5] See Coleridge, page 504.

[705-6] See Rogers, page 455.

[705-7] See Gay, page 349.

LUCRETIUS. 95-55 B. C.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.[706-1]

_De Rerum Natura. i. 313._

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.[706-2]

_De Rerum Natura. iv. 637._

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.[706-3]

_De Rerum Natura. iv. 1133._

FOOTNOTES:

[706-1] See Lyly, page 32.

[706-2] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 199.

[706-3] See Byron, page 540.

HORACE. 65-8 B. C.

Brave men were living before Agamemnon.[706-4]

_Odes. iv. 9, 25._

In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.[706-5]

_Satires, ii. 2._ (_111._)

You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared-for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus's herd.[706-6]

_Satires, ii. 4, 15._

What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.[706-7]

_Epistles, i. 12, 19._

If you wish me to weep, you yourself must feel grief.[706-8]

_Ars Poetica. 102._

The mountains will be in labour; an absurd mouse will be born.[706-9]

_Ars Poetica. 139._

Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.[706-10]

_Ars Poetica. 359._

FOOTNOTES:

[706-4] See Byron, page 555.

[706-5] See Washington, page 425.

[706-6] See Mason, page 393.

[706-7] See Burke, page 409.

[706-8] See Churchill, page 412.

[706-9] A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.--PHÆDRUS: _Fables, iv. 22, 1._

The old proverb was now made good: "The mountain had brought forth a mouse."--PLUTARCH: _Life of Agesilaus II._

[706-10] See Pope, page 323.

OVID. 43 B. C.-18 A. D.

They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.[707-1]

_The Art of Love. i. 99._

Nothing is stronger than custom.

_The Art of Love. ii. 345._

Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.[707-2]

_Metamorphoses. i._

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.[707-3]

_Metamorphoses. xiii._

The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.[707-4]

_Fasti. iv. 311._

FOOTNOTES:

[707-1] See Chaucer, page 3.

[707-2] See Pope, page 344.

I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.--RABELAIS: _Works,