Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Translation of Horace. Book ii. Ode x.

But strive still to be a man before your mother.[424:2]

Connoisseur. Motto of No. iii.

Footnotes

[414:1] See Pope, page [314].

[414:2] See Prior, page [287].

[415:1] See Pope, page [331].

[415:2] See Pope, page [336].

[415:3] See Butler, page [213].

The story of a lamp which was supposed to have burned about fifteen hundred years in the sepulchre of Tullia, the daughter of Cicero, is told by Pancirollus and others.