Fontenelle.
"Immo Deus mihi si dederit renovare juventam,
Utve iterum in cunis possim vagire; recusem."
Isaac Hawkins Browne, De Animi Immortalitate, lib. i., near the end.
(See Selecta Poemata Anglorum Latina, iii. 251.)
F. W. J.
Passage of Thucydides on the Greek Factions (Vol. vii., p. 594.).—The passage alluded to by Sir A. Alison appears to be the celebrated description of the moral effects produced by the conflicts of the Greek factions, which is subjoined to the account of the Corcyræan sedition, iii. 82. The quotation must, however, have been made from memory, and it is amplified and expanded from the original. The words adverted to seem to be:
"μέλλησις δὲ προμηθὴς δειλία εὐπρεπὴς, τὸ δὲ σῶφρον τοῦ ἀνάνδρου πρόσχημα, καὶ τὸ πρὸς ἅπαν ξυνετὸν ἐπὶ πᾶν ἀργόν."
Thucydides, however, proceeds to say that the cunning which enabled a man to plot with success against an enemy, or still more to discover his hostile purposes, was highly esteemed.