’Now Lycian lots, and now the Delian god,
  Now Hermes is employ’d from Jove’s abode,
  To warn him hence, as if the peaceful state
  Of heavenly powers were touch’d with human fate!’

(Dryden).

524.  SEN.

  ‘As the world leads, we follow.’

525.  EURIP.

  ’That love alone, which virtue’s laws control,
  Deserves reception in the human soul.’

526.  OVID, Met. ii. 127.

  ‘Keep a stiff rein.’

(Addison).

527.  PLAUTUS in Stichor.

  ’You will easily find a worse woman; a better the sun never shone
  upon.’

528.  Ovid, Met. ix. 165.

  ’With wonted fortitude she bore the smart,
  And not a groan confess’d her burning heart.’

(Gay).

529.  HOR.  Ars Poet. 92.

  ‘Let everything have its due place.’

(Roscommon).

530.  HOR. 1 Od. xxxiii. 10.

  ’Thus Venus sports; the rich, the base,
  Unlike in fortune and in face,
  To disagreeing love provokes;
    When cruelly jocose,
    She ties the fatal noose,
  And binds unequals to the brazen yokes.’

(Creech).

531.  HOR. 1 Od. xii. 15.

  ’Who guides below, and rules above,
  The great Disposer, and the mighty King: 
  Than he none greater, like him none
    That can be, is, or was;
  Supreme he singly fills the throne.’

(Creech).

532.  HOR.  Ars Poet. ver. 304.

  ’I play the whetstone; useless, and unfit
  To cut myself, I sharpen other’s wit.’

(Creech).

533.  PLAUT.

  ’Nay, says he, if one is too little, I will give you two;
  And if two will not satisfy you, I will add two more.’

534.  JUV.  Sat. viii. 73.

  ’—­We seldom find
  Much sense with an exalted fortune join’d.’

(Stepney).

535.  HOR. 1 Od. xi. 7.

  ‘Cut short vain hope.’

536.  VIRG.  AEn. ix. 617.

  ‘O! less than women in the shapes of men.’

(Dryden).

537.

  ‘For we are his offspring.’

(Acts xvii. 28.)

538.  HOR. 2 Sat. i. 1.

  ‘To launch beyond all bounds.’

539.  QUAE GENUS.

  ‘Be they heteroclites.’

540.  VIRG.  AEn. vi. 143.

  ‘A second is not wanting.’

541.  HOR.  Ars Poet. v. 108.

  ’For nature forms and softens us within,
  And writes our fortune’s changes in our face: 
  Pleasure enchants, impetuous rage transports,
  And grief dejects, and wrings the tortured soul: 
  And these are all interpreted by speech.’

(Roscommon).

542.  OVID, Met. ii. 430.

  ’He heard,
  Well pleased, himself before himself preferred.’

(Addison).

543.  OVID, Met. ii. 12.