Ovid, Remed. Amor. ver. 94.—Ed.]
[“She does not see what is in the bag behind her.”
Sed non videmus manticæ quod in tergo est.
Catul. Carm. xxii. ver. 21.
There is an allusion here to one of the fables of Æsop. Jupiter, says Aesop, placed two bags upon men. The one, which contained their own faults, he put upon their back, and the other, which was filled with the faults of others, he suspended from their neck, upon their breast. In this way, we cannot see our own misdeeds, but, perceiving those of others, we censure them freely. Phæd. Fab. Æsop, lib. iv. fab. 10.—Ed.]
[Crede mihi, bene qui latuit, bene vixit; et intra
Fortunam debet quisque manere suam.
“Believe me, he who has not attracted the notice of the world has lived well, and every one ought to keep within his own proper sphere.” Ovid Trist. lib. iii. eleg. iv, ver. 25.—Ed.]
[The heathen mythologists represented the Sirens to be three in number, and described them as effecting the destruction of mariners, by luring them from their course with their singing.
—They the hearts