‘Receive instruction from an enemy.’

278.  HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 250.

  ‘I rather choose a low and creeping style.’

279.  HOR.  Ars Poet. v. 316.

  ‘He knows what best befits each character.’

280.  HOR. 1 Ep. xvii. 35.

  ‘To please the great is not the smallest praise.’

(Creech).

281.  VIRG.  AEn. iv. 64.

  ‘Anxious the reeking entrails he consults.’

282.  VIRG.  AEn. viii. 580.

  ‘Hopes and fears in equal balance laid.’

(Dryden).

283.  PERS.  Prolog. ver. 10.

  ‘Necessity is the mother of invention.’

(English Proverbs).

284.  VIRG.  Ecl. vii. 17.

  ‘Their mirth to share, I bid my business wait.’

285.  HOR.  Ars Poet. ver. 227.

  ’But then they did not wrong themselves so much,
  To make a god, a hero, or a king,
  (Stript of his golden crown, and purple robe)
  Descend to a mechanic dialect;
  Nor (to avoid such meanness) soaring high,
  With empty sound, and airy notions fly.’

(Roscommon).

286.  TACIT.  Ann.  I. xiv. c. 21.

  ‘Specious names are lent to cover vices.’

287.  MENAND.

  ’Dear native land, how do the good and wise
  Thy happy clime and countless blessings prize!’

288.  HOR. 1 Ep. vi. 10.

  ‘Both fear alike.’

289.  HOR. 1 Od. iv. 15.

  ’Life’s span forbids us to extend our cares,
  And stretch our hopes beyond our years.’

(Creech).

290.  HOR.  Ars Poet. ver. 97.

  ‘Forgets his swelling and gigantic words.’

(Roscommon).

291.  HOR.  Ars Poet. ver. 351.

  ’But in a poem elegantly writ,
  I will not quarrel with a slight mistake,
  Such as our nature’s frailty may excuse.’

(Roscommon).

292.  TIBUL. 4 Eleg. ii. 8.

  ’Whate’er she does, where’er her steps she bends,
  Grace on each action silently attends.’

293.  Frag.  Vet.  Poet.

  ‘The prudent still have fortune on their side.’

294.  TULL. ad Herennium.

  ’The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have much reverence for
  virtue.’

295.  JUV.  Sat. vi. 361.

  ’But womankind, that never knows a mean,
  Down to the dregs their sinking fortunes drain: 
  Hourly they give, and spend, and waste, and wear,
  And think no pleasure can be bought too dear.’

(Dryden).

296.  HOR. 1 Ep. xix. 42.

  ‘Add weight to trifles.’

297.  HOR. 1 Sat. vi. 66.

  ‘As perfect beauties somewhere have a mole.’

(Creech).

298.  VIRG.  AEn. iv. 373.

  ‘Honour is nowhere safe.’

299.  JUV.  Sat. vi. 166.