Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.1 Hippolytus. Frag. 435. Second thoughts are ever wiser.2 Frag. 436. Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame. Licymnius. Frag. 477. Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but Meleager. Frag. 523. not in it. A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing. Frag. 525. Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. Edipus. Frag. 546. When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. Temenida. Frag. 734. Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. Phoenix. Frag. 809. Who knows but life be that which men cail death," Phrixus. Frag. 830. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. Frag. 927. The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. Frag. 970. MIMNERMUS (TRAGEDIAN). We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead. 1 See Herbert, page 206. 2 See Henry, page 283. 3 See Diogenes Laertius, page 943 Frag. 1. Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. Frag. 6. PLAUTUS. 254 (?)-184 B. C. (Translated by Henry Thomas Riley, B. A., with a few variations. The references are to the text of Ritschl's second edition.8) What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.* Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 48. (329.) Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired. 88. (367.) These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad. He whom the gods favour dies in youth." 1 See Chaucer, page 6. 2 See Shakespeare, page 141. 111. (392.) Bacchides. Act is. Ec. 7, 18. (816.) For a desperate disease a desperate cure. The Custom of the Isle of Cea. 8 Bohn's Classical Library. 4 See Shakespeare, page 50. 6 See Wordsworth, page 479. -MONTAIGNE: Chap. iii You are seeking a knot in a bulrush.1 Menæchmi. Act ii. Sc. 1, 22. (247.) In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other.2 Aulularia. Act . Sc. 2, 18. (195.) I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock. Act iii. Sc. 4, 13. (472.) It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.3 Act iv. Sc. 3, 1. (624.) There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. Captivi. Act ii. Sc. 2, 77. (327.) Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.* Rudens. Act ii. Sc. 5, 71. If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods. provide you. Act iv. Sc. 7, 3. (1229.) Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only." Truculentus. Act iv. Sc. 4, 15. (868.) Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend Epidicus. Act iii. Sc. 3, 44. (425.) Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.7 in need. Mostellaria. Act i. Sc. 3, 40. (197.) To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy. Each man reaps on his own farm. Act iii. Sc. 2, 104. (791.) 112. (799.) 1 A proverbial expression implying a desire to create doubts and difficul ties where there really were none. It occurs in Terence, the "Andria,” act v. sc. 4, 38; also in Ennius, "Saturæ," 46. 2 What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him Matthew vii. 9. a stone? See Gay, page 349. - PUBLIUS SYRUS: Maxim 170. 4 Patience is a remedy for every sorrow. -] 5 See Chaucer, page 4. A friend in need is a friend indeed. - HAZLITT: English Proverbs. 7 The unexpected always happens. — A common proverb. TERENCE. 185-159 B. C. (From the translation of Henry Thomas Riley, B. A., with occasional corrections. The references are to the text of Umpfenbach.1) Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all? Andria. The Prologue. 17. Of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth. Hence these tears. 99. (126.) That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another." Act ii. Sc. 5, 15. (426.) The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.2 Act iii. Sc. 3, 23. (555.) Look you, I am the most concerned in my own interests.3 Act iv. Sc. 1, 12. (636.) In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before. Eunuchus. The Prologue. 41. It is up with you; all is over; you are ruined. Act i. Sc. 1, 9. (54.) If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything. Sc. 2, 96. (176.) Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool! Act ii. Sc. 2. 1. (232) I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.1 1 Bohn's Classical Library. 2 See Edwards, page 21. Ibid. 12. (243) 8 Equivalent to our sayings, "Charity begins at home;" "Take care of Number One." 4 See Wotton, page 174. There are vicissitudes in all things. The very flower of youth. I did not care one straw. Eunuchus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 45. (276.) Sc. 3, 28. (319.) Act iii. Sc. 1, 21. (411.) Jupiter, now assuredly is the time when I could readily consent to be slain,1 lest life should sully this ecstasy with some disaster. Sc. 5, 2. (550.) This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with. Act iv. Sc. 6, 8. (746.) Take care and say this with presence of mind." Sc. 6, 31. (769.) It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms. Sc. 7, 19. (789.) I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination. 42. (812.) I took to my heels as fast as I could. Act v. Sc. 2, 5. (844.) Many a time, . . . from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up. 34. (873.) I only wish I may see your head stroked down with a slipper.3 Sc. 7, 4. (1028.) I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.1 Heautontimoroumenos. Act i. Sc. 1, 25. (77.) This is a wise maxim, "to take warning from others of what may be to your own advantage." 1 If it were now to die, 'T were now to be most happy. Sc. 2, 36. (210.) SHAKESPEARE: Othello, act ii. sc. 1. 2 Literally, "with a present mind," equivalent to Cæsar's præsentia animi (De Bello Gallico, v. 43, 4). According to Lucian, there was a story that Omphale used to beat Hercules with her slipper or sandal. * Cicero quotes this passage in De Officiis, i. 30. |