Kind Hermes, inexpensive deity.
But Hercules demands a lamb each day,
For keeping, so he says, the wolves away.
Imports it much, meek browsers of the sod,
Whether a wolf devour you, or a god?"
295. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, Chap. II.
296. Conversion of the Roman Empire, Note A.
297. "Expedit civitates falli in religione," said Varro.
298. "Philosophia sapientiæ amor est." "Nec philosophia sine virtute, nec sine philosophia virtus." Epist. XCI. 5.
299. "Physica non faciunt bonos, sed doctos." Epist. CVI. 11.