1. [HOMER. ILIAD, XVII. 446-7.]
That man for misery excell'd
All creatures which the wide world held.
2. [EURIPIDES. BACCHAE, 1170-4.]
A tender kid—see, where 'tis put—
I on the hills did slay,
Now dress'd and into quarters cut,
A pleasant, dainty prey.
From Of the Diseases of the Mind and the Body: translated from Maximus Tyrius (1651).
1. [ARIPHRON.]
O health, the chief of gifts divine!
I would I might with thee and thine
Live all those days appointed mine!