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If I should tell at a tea table in London, that I have crossed the Atlantick in an open boat, how they'd shudder, and what a fool they'd think me to expose myself to such danger? He then repeated Horace's ode, 'Otium Divos rogat in patenti Prensus Aegaeo In the confusion and hurry of this boisterous sail, Dr.
Warm in expression, and short in extent, it concentrates in narrow bounds the fire of poetical transport: on which account, it has been generally employed to celebrate the fervours of piety, the raptures of love, the enthusiasm of praise; and to animate warriors to glorious exertions of valour: Musa dedit fidibus Divos, puerosque Deorum, Et pugilem victorem, et equum certamine primnm, Et juvenum curas, et libera vina referre.
Indeed, Sulla and Caesar boasted more of their good luck than of their prudence. The hero of the Aeneid proceeds only under the direction of a God. It was very great praise offered to the Emperors if one said that they were victorious both through their troops and through their gods whom they lent to their generals: 'Te copias, te consilium et tuos praebente Divos, said Horace.
"Now I had Virgil at my fingers' ends, so I answered him: 'Flectere si nequeo superos, Aeheronta movebo, "'Very good, said he, 'you have the genius, and will come to somethin' yet: now tell me the most moral line in Virgil. "I answered: 'Discere justitiam moniti et non temnere divos. * * He is evidently drawing the long-bow here; this anecdote has been told before.
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