(Colman).
217. JUV. Sat. vi. 326.
’Then unrestrain’d by rules
of decency,
Th’ assembled females raise a general
cry.’
218. HOR. Ep. xvii. 68.
’—Have a care
Of whom you talk, to whom, and what, and
where.’
(Pooley).
219. OVID, Met. xiii. 141.
‘These I scarce call our own.’
220. VIRG. AEn. xii. 228.
‘A thousand rumours spreads.’
221. HOR. 3 Sat. I. 1. v. 6.
’From eggs, which first are set
upon the board,
To apples ripe, with which it last is
stored.’
222. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 183.
’Why, of two brothers, one his pleasure
loves,
Prefers his sports to Herod’s fragrant
groves.’
(Creech).
223. PHAEDR. iii. i. 5.
’O sweet soul! how good must you
have been heretofore, when your
remains are so delicious!’
224. HOR. 1 Sat. vi. 23.
’Chain’d to her shining car,
Fame draws along
With equal whirl the great and vulgar
throng.’
225. JUV. Sat. x. 365.
‘Prudence supplies the want of every good.’
226. HOR.
‘A picture is a poem without words.’
227. THEOCRITUS.
’Wretch that I am! ah, whither shall
I go?
Will you not hear me, nor regard my woe?
I’ll strip, and throw me from yon
rock so high,
Where Olpis sits to watch the scaly fry.
Should I be drown’d, or ’scape
with life away,
If cured of love, you, tyrant, would be
gay.’
228. HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 69.
‘Th’ inquisitive will blab;
from such refrain:
Their leaky ears no secret can retain.’
(Shard).
229. HOR. 4 Od. ix. 4.
’Nor Sappho’s amorous flames
decay;
Her living songs preserve their charming
art,
Her verse still breathes the passions
of her heart.’
(Francis).
230. TULL.
’Men resemble the gods in nothing
so much as in doing good to their
fellow-creatures.’
231. MART. viii. 78.
‘O modesty! O piety!’
232. SALLUST, Bel. Cat.
‘By bestowing nothing he acquired glory.’
233. VIRG. Ecl. x. v. 60.
’As if by these my sufferings I
could ease;
Or by my pains the god of love appease.’
(Dryden).
234. HOR. 1 Sat. iii. 41.
‘I wish this error in your friendship reign’d.’
(Creech).
235. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 81.
‘Awes the tumultuous noises of the pit.’
(Roscommon).
236. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 398.
‘With laws connubial tyrants to restrain.’
237. SENECA in Oedip.
‘They that are dim of sight see truth by halves.’
238. PERSIUS, Sat. iv. 50.
’No more to flattering crowds thine
ear incline,
Eager to drink the praise which is not
thine.’