“Torva leæna lupum sequitur, lupus ipse capellam:
Florentem cytisum sequitur lasciva capella.”
Virgil, Ecl. ii. 63.
[623] Ovid, Rem. Amoris, v. 343. Mart. Epist.
[624] Psalm xix. 1.
[625] Syrinx, signifying a reed, or the ancient pen.
[626] Ovid, Metam. b. iv.
[627] Thus it is the excellence of a general, early to discover what turn the battle is likely to take; and looking prudently behind, as well as before, to pursue a victory so as not to be unprovided for a retreat.
[628] It may be remembered that the Athenian peasant voted for the banishment of Aristides, because he was called the Just. Shakspeare forcibly expresses the same thought:—
“Let me have men about me that are fat;