Hom. Il. ix. 47.
“Let them fly with their ships, to their dear native country; but we—Sthenelus and I—will fight till we find the end of Ilion!” Cæsar addresses his soldiers in language very nearly similar:—“Quòd si præterea nemo sequatur, tamen se cum solâ decimâ legione iturum, de quâ non dubitaret.”—De Bella Gallico, lib. i. §. 40.
XXXI. “Not death at every footstep can appal.”
Per damna, per cædes, ab ipso
Ducit opes animumque ferro.
Non ...
Monstrumve summisere Colchi
Majus, Echioniæve Thebæ.
Horat. Carm. iv. 4.
XXXII. “Like mariner that dashed on stormy beach,” &c.