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Talking with travelled friends, he was wont to praise himself in humorous vein for the sober fixity of his life, and to quote, in that mellow tone which gave such charm to his talk, the line from Claudian, 'Erret et extremos alter scrutetur Iberos; for he had several friends to whom a Latin or a Greek quotation was no stumbling-block.
I always remember the prayer of Virgil's sailor in extremity: "Non jam prima peto Mnestheus, neque vincere certo; Quamquam O! Sed superent quibus hoc, Neptune, dedisti! Extremos pudeat rediisse: hoc vincite, cives, Et prohibete nefas!" We must to our oar; but I think this and another are all that even success would prompt me to write; and surely those that have been my defenders
Erret, et extremos alter scrutetur Hiberos, Plus habet hic vitae, plus habet ille viae though, in its dependence on a verbal point, it may not satisfy the purest taste, is not without a dignity and pathos that are worthy of the large manner of the classical period. Claudian used the heroic hexameter for mythological as well as historical epics.
Nos terrarum ac libertatis extremos, recessus ipse ac sinus famae in hunc diem defendit: nunc terminus Britanniae patet; atque omne ignotum pro magnifico est. Sed nulla jam ultra gens, nihil nisi fluctus et saxa, et infestiores Romani: quorum superbiam frustra per obsequium et modestiam effugeris.
IN OMNI ORATIONE: 'everywhere throughout my speech'. Tota oratione would have meant 'my speech viewed as a whole'. DEFENDERET: the tense is accommodated to that of dixi, according to Latin custom; see n. on 42 efficeret. CANI: sc. capilli; the same ellipsis is found in Ovid. FRUCTUS ... EXTREMOS: 'receives the reward of influence at the last'.
"Erret, et extremos alter scrutetur Iberos. Plus habet hic vitae, plus habet ille viae." Let them wander and scrutinize the outlandish Australians. I have more of God, they more of the road. It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.
Pugnae is here, by a figure put for the combatants themselves, who are represented as looking to the Caledonians, as a kind of corps de reserve, or last resource. Eo. For that reason. The best things are always kept guarded and concealed in the penetralia. Terrarum extremos. The remotest of men and last of freemen. Recessus famae. Our very remoteness and obscurity.
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