Vulcan to the Cyclopes,
Arma acri facienda viro: nunc viribus usus,
Nunc manibus rapidis, omni nunc arte magistra:
Præcipitate moras.
Æneid. viii. 441.
———— Huic gladio, perque ærea suta
Per tunicam squalentem auro, latus haurit apertum.
Æneid. x. 313.
Semotique prius tarda necessitas
Lethi, corripuit gradum.
Horat. Carm. lib. 1. ode 3.
Scribêris Vario fortis, et hostium
Victor, Mæonii carminis alite.
Horat. Carm. lib. 1. ode 6.
Else shall our fates be number’d with the dead.
Iliad v. 294.
Commutual death the fate of war confounds.
Iliad viii. 85. and xi. 117.
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Speaking of Proteus,
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Instant he wears, elusive of the rape,
The mimic force of every savage shape.
Odyss. iv. 563.
Rolling convulsive on the floor, is seen
The piteous object of a prostrate Queen.
Ibid. iv. 952.