Nought rests in perpetuity; nor may we

Call aught our own, save what the belly gives

A local habitation: for the rest—

What's Codrus? dust. What Pericles? a clod.

And noble Cymon?—tut, my feet walk over him. —Mitchell.


Machon. (Book viii. § 26, p. 538.)

Of all fish-eaters

None sure excell'd the lyric bard Philoxenus.

'Twas a prodigious twist! At Syracuse