Mittamus arma in hostes, et petamus.
Naso wrote—
Arma viri fortis medios mittantur in hostes
Inde jubete peti.
He borrowed another idea from one of Latro’s Suasorian orations:—
Non vides uti immota fax torpeat et exagitata reddat ignes?
Ovid’s paraphrase of this illustration is—
Vidi ego jactatas mota face crescere flammas,
Et rursus, nullo concutiente, mori.
When he was a student he was thought to declaim well.”