[221] Simonides, apud Herod. Hist., Lib. VIII. c. 229.
[222] A brilliant writer, who never fails to exalt war, recognizes the parallel between the soldier and the executioner; but he finds the soldier so noble as to ennoble even the work of the executioner, when called to perform it.—Joseph de Maistre, Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, Tom. II. pp. 4-13.
[223] Lucan, Pharsalia, Lib. VII. 196.
[224] See Illustrations at the end of this Oration.
[225] Lucan, Pharsalia, Lib. I. 12.
[226] Pantagruel, Book II. ch. 30.
[227] "L'art militaire, c'est à dire, l'art funeste d'apprendre aux hommes à s'exterminer les uns les autres."—Massillon, Oraison Funèbre de Louis le Grand.
[228] Waller, Of Queen Catharine, on New Year's Day, 1683.
[229] Schiller, Columbus.
[230] Exodus, xxxiii. 18, 19.—It was a saying of Heathen Antiquity, that to help a mortal was to be a God to a mortal, and this is the way to everlasting Glory: "Deus est mortali juvare mortalem, et hæc ad æternam Gloriam via."—Plin., Nat. Hist., II. 7.