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Σὲ δ ̓, ὦ φαεννῆς ἡμέρας τὸ νῦν σέλας,
Καὶ τὸν διφρευτὴν Ἥλιον προσεννέπω,
Πανύστατον δὴ, κοὔποτ ̓ αὖθις ὕστερον.

Glorious orb!

thou dost rise and shine

And set in glory. Fare thee well

I ne'er shall see thee more. As my first glance
Of love and wonder was for thee, then take
My latest look.

Byron's Manfred, act iii. sc. 2.

Oh lamp serene,

Do I lift up to thee undazzled eyes

For the last time, shall I enjoy no more
Thy golden haziness?

Talfourd's Ion, act iv. sc. 3.

Each look'd on sun and sky and plain
As what he ne'er should see again.

Scott's Lady of the Lake. The Combat.

Τὰ δ ̓ ἀλλ ̓ ἐν "Αιδου τοῖς κάτω μυθήσομαι.

Pettalus irridens, Stygiis cane cetera, dixit,
Manibus!

Upon the dismal banks of Acheron,

Ovid Met. b. v. 115.

Amidst the wailing ghosts, still curse thy country.
And end a speech the damned will hate to hear.

Servans portabo in Tartara luctus.

853 Πόνος πόνῳ πόνον φέρει.

Home's Agis, act v.

Sil. Ital. ix. 406.

Misfortune on misfortune, grief on grief.

Addison's Cato, act iv. sc. 1.

Misfortune comes like the coroner's business,

Huddle upon huddle.

863 HMIX. "Exels oûv;

Webster's Vittoria Corombona.

ΗΜΙΧ. Πόνου γε πλῆθος, κοὐδὲν εἰς ὄψιν πλέον.

Ac. Tibi equidem a portu adporto hoc.

Cn. Quid fers? dic mihi.

Ac. Vim, metum, cruciatum, curam jurgiumque, atque inopiam.

CH. Perii, tu quidem thesaurum huc mihi apportasti.

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880

885

Plaut. Merc. act i. sc. 2.

Η τίς Ολυμπιάδων θεῶν, ἢ ῥυτῶν
Βοσπορίων ποταμῶν, ἴδρις

Τὸν ὠμόθυμον, εἴ ποθί
Πλαζόμενον λεύσσων, ἀπύοι.

He ask'd the waves, and ask'd the felon winds,
What hard mishap hath doom'd the gentle swain,
And question'd every gust of rugged wings :

They knew not of his story.

Milton's Lycidas.

Οἴχωκ ̓, ἔλωλα, διαπεπόρθημαι, φιλοι.

Sic olim ignaros luctus populavit Achivos.

Ω μοι κατέπεφνες, ἄναξ,
Τόνδε συνναύταν, ὦ τάλας.

Vah. Solus hic homo est qui sciat divinitus.

Propert. III. xviii. 29.

So in English; Mosca speaking of himself:

Plaut. Curcul. act ii. sc. 1.

This is the creature, hath the art born with him.

Hostibus ipsis

Pallorem, ac maciem, et tenues miserantibus artus.

Juv. 15.

Also Æneid. ii. 6; Beaumont and Fletcher's King and No King, act iii. sc. 2. See also Ed. Tyr. 1296.

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Γελᾷ δὲ τοῖσδε μαινομένοις ἄχεσιν
Πολὺν γέλωτα.

Thou awful thing of shadows, speak to me;
Why dost thou laugh that horrid laugh?

Byron's Heaven and Earth.

Οἱ δ ̓ οὖν γελώντων κἀπιχαιρόντων κακοῖς
Τοῖς τοῦδ'. ἴσως τοι, κεἰ βλέποντα μὴ πόθουν
Θανόντ ̓ ἂν οἰμώξειαν ἐν χρείᾳ δορός.
Οἱ γὰρ κακοὶ γνώμαισι, τἀγαθὸν χεροῖν
Ἔχοντες, οὐκ ἴσασι, πρίν τις ἐκβάλῃ.

What, what, what!

I shall be lov'd, when I am lack'd.

Coriolanus, act iv. sc. 1.

Tum denique homines nostra intelligimus bona,
Cum quæ in potestate habuimus, illa amisimus.

Plaut. Captiv. act i. sc. 2.

In living men the world doth worth neglect,
Mark'd carelessly, by envy, or by hate;
And they when gone, are by the world admired,
As he was straight when once from hence retired.

Earl of Stirling's Domesday. The Ninth Hour, stanza 74.
Not to understand a treasure's worth,

Till time has stol'n away the slighted good,

Is cause of half the misery we feel.

Cowper's Winter's Walk at Noon.

Our rash faults,

Make trivial price of serious things we have

Not knowing them, until we know their grave.

All's Well, act v. sc. 3.

Also, Much Ado, &c., act iv. sc. 1; Drummond's River Forth's Feasting; and Horace "virtutem incolumem," &c.

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Αλλ' ἐμοὶ

Λιπὼν ἀνίας καὶ γόους διοίχεται.

Ωχετο δ ̓ ἐν νεκύεσσι λιπὼν πατρὶ πένθος ἄληκτον.
Epigr. Incerti Auctoris Anthol. Leips. vol. iii. 363.

Compare the conduct of the fæx Romuli to the corpse of Sejanus.

Curramus præcipites, et

Dum jacet in ripâ, calcemus Cæsaris hostem.

Juv. x. 85.

The people apt to scorn calamity,

And tread on the oppressed.

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Massinger's Fatal Dowry, act v. sc. 3.

Oh, breasts of pity, void to oppress the weak,

And with one mutual cry insult the fallen-
Emblem too just of man's degenerate race.

Somerville's Chase, book I.

Οσας ἀνίας μοι κατασπείρας φθίνεις.

A common metaphor.

Though joys and cares in every path are sown.

996

Ant.

Dec.

Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy. Spring.

Τοιαῦτ ̓ ἀνὴρ δύσοργος, ἐν γήρᾳ βαρύς,
Ερεῖ, πρὸς οὐδὲν εἰς ἔριν θυμούμενος.
Τέλος δ', ἀπωστὸς γῆς ἀποῤῥιφθήσομαι.

"I utterly renounce," 'twas so,
Was't not my Decius ?

Pish! you know, my Lord,

Old men are choleric.

ANT.

And lastly parted

With “ never henceforth see my face,” Oh me!
How have I lost a Father?

Beaumont and Fletcher's Laws of Candy, act i. sc. 9.

1013 Αρ ̓ οὐκ Εριννὺς τοῦτ' ἐχάλκευσε ξίφος.
Comp. Agam. 1517. Herm. Edit.

1036 Κεἰ μὴ θεῶν τις τήνδε πεῖραν ἔσβεσεν,
Ἡμεῖς μὲν ἂν τήνδ', ἣν ὅδ ̓ εἴληχεν τύχην,
Θανόντες ἂν προὐκείμεθ ̓ αἰσχίστῳ μόρῳ,
Οὗτος δ ̓ ἂν ἔζη. νῦν δ ̓ ἐνήλλαξεν θεός.

Thus, by the work of Heav'n the men that thought
To follow our dead bodies without teares,

Are dead themselves, and now we follow theirs.

Cyril Tourneur's Atheist Tragedy, act v. sc. 1.

1058 Δέος γὰρ ᾧ πρόσεστιν αἰσχύνη θ' ὁμοῦ,
Σωτηρίαν ἔχοντα τόνδ' ἐπίστασο.

Οπου δ ̓ ὑβρίζειν, δρᾶν θ', ἃ βούλεται, πάρα.
Ταύτην νόμιζε τὴν πόλιν χρόνῳ ποτὲ
Ἐξ οὐρίων δραμοῦσαν εἰς βυθὸν πεσεῖν,
'Αλλ' ἐστάτω μοι καὶ δέος τι καίριον.

See Eumenides, 505. 668.

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Καὶ μὴ δοκῶμεν, δρῶντες ̔ἂν ἡδώμεθα,
Οὐκ ἀντιτίσειν αὖθις, ἂν λυπώμεθα,
Ερπει παραλλὰξ ταῦτα.

Si mihi pergit quæ vult dicere, ea quæ non vult, audiet.

Ter. Andr. act v. sc. 5.

1069 Μὴ, τόνδε θάπτων, αὐτὸς εἰς ταφὰς πέσης.

Set down the corse ; or, by St. Paul,
I'll make a corse of him that disobeys.

Richard III. act i. sc. 2.

Whilst others for the dead are making graves,
Themselves are made the corpses that do fill them.

The Courageous Turk; or, Amurath the 1st, by T. Goff, 1620, act iii. sc. 6.