"Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem
Quam quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus, et quæ
Ipse sibi tradit spectator."—-Hor. A. P. 180.
"Cuncta ferit dum cuncta timet; desævit in omnes,
Ut se posse putent; nec bellua tetrior ulla
Quam servi rabies in libera terga furentes
Agnoscit gemitus, et pœnæ parcere nescit
Quam subiit, dominique memor quem verberat odit."
Claudian in Eutrop. i. 108.
"Justum et tenacem propositi virum.
. . . . . .
Non vultus instantis tyranni
Mente quatit solida."—Hor. III. Od. iii. 1.
[11] ῥίψωμίν ἄγκυραν.
[12] "Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought."—Shakespeare.
[13] Plutarch thus describes the punishment of poisoners among the Persians.—"Poisoners are put to death, by the Persian laws, in the following manner. The head of the criminal is laid upon a flat stone, the executioner with another stone beats and pounds his head, until both head and face are entirely crushed."