Immunis aram si tetigit manus,
Non sumptuosa blandior hostia
Mellivit aversos Penates
Farre pio et saliente mica, [233]
Farewell, dear Horace; farewell, thou wise and kindly heathen; of mortals the most human, the friend of my friends and of so many generations of men.
Ave atque Vale!
FOOTNOTES
[13] I am informed that the Natural History of Young Ladies is attributed, by some writers, to another philosopher, the author of The Art of Pluck.
[48a] Rape of the Lock.
[48b] In Mr. Hogarth’s Caricatura.
[49] Elwin’s Pope, ii. 15.
[50] “Poor Pope was always a hand-to-mouth liar.”—Pope, by Leslie Stephen, 139.
[64] The Greek ῥόμβος, mentioned by Lucian and Theocritus, was the magical weapon of the Australians—the turndun.