[158] Hampton's Polybius, Book VI. Ext. II. ch. 2.

[159] Erasmi Epist., Lib. V. Ep. 4.

[160] Harrington's Oceana, p. 134.

[161] Terence, taught, perhaps, by his own bitter experience as slave, has given expression to truth almost Christian, when he says,—

"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto."

Heauton., Act I. Sc. 1.

And in the Andria,—

"Facile omnes perferre ac pati,

Cum quibus erat cunque una: iis sese dedere:

Eorum obsequi studiis: advorsus nemini: