[855] Luke xvi. 24.

[856] Æneid, vi. 733.

[857] Ch. [3], [5], [6].

[858] Aristotle does not affirm it as a fact observed by himself, but as a popular tradition (Hist. anim. v. 19). Pliny is equally cautious (Hist. nat. xxix. 23). Dioscorides declared the thing impossible (ii. 68).—Saisset.

[859] So Lucretius, ii. 1025:

"Sed neque tam facilis res ulla 'st, quin ea primum
Difficilis magis ad credendum constet: itemque
Nil adeo magnum, nec tam mirabile quicquam
Principis, quod non minuant mirarier omnes
Paulatim."

[860] Alluded to by Moore in his Melodies:

"The fount that played
In times of old through Ammon's shade,
Though icy cold by day it ran,
Yet still, like souls of mirth, began
To burn when night was near."

[861] Æneid, iv. 487-491.

[862] See the same collocation of words in Cic. Nat. deor. ii. 3.