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

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To a perfect beast that first deformed thing.

Du Bartas: Divine Weekes and Workes, first week, first day.

[719:3] See Phædrus, page [715].

[719:4] See Shakespeare, page [152].

[720:1] See Publius Syrus, page [708].

[720:2] A maxim of Cato.

[720:3] See Shakespeare, page [46]. Also Lover, page [583].

Numero deus impare gaudet (The god delights in odd numbers).—Virgil: Eclogæ, 8, 75.

[720:4] Nulla dies abeat, quin linea ducta supersit.—Erasmus.

The form generally quoted, "Nulla dies sine linea" (No day without a line), is not attested.