Confingit[37].
He gives expression also to great strength of will and to that most powerful kind of pathos which arises out of the commingling of compassion for suffering with the admiration for heroism, as in these fragments of the Astyanax and the Telephus,—
Abducite intro; nam mihi miseritudine
Commovit animum excelsa aspecti dignitas[38];
and—
Nam huius demum miseret, cuius nobilitas miserias
Nobilitat[39].
He shows a further power of directly seizing the real meaning of human life, and setting aside false appearances and beliefs. The following may be quoted as exhibiting something of his moral strength, humanity, and direct force of understanding:—
Scin' ut quem cuique tribuit fortuna ordinem,