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And yet the recent memory of his example served to preserve Monsieur d'Anguien from the same misfortune at the battle of Serisoles. 'Tis dangerous to attack a man you have deprived of all means to escape but by his arms, for necessity teaches violent resolutions: "Gravissimi sunt morsus irritatae necessitatis." "Vincitur haud gratis, jugulo qui provocat hostem."
Ego vestros patres, P. Scipio tuque, C. Laeli, viros clarissimos mihique amicissimos, vivere arbitror et eam quidem vitam, quae est sola vita nominanda. Nam dum sumus inclusi in his compagibus corporis, munere quodam necessitatis et gravi opere perfungimur; est enim animus caelestis ex altissimo domicilio depressus et quasi demersus in terram, locum divinae naturae eternitatique contrarium.
NAM DUM SUMUS etc.: the whole of this doctrine is Platonic; cf. Lael. 13. MUNERE NECESSITATIS ET ... OPERE: 'function and task allotted as by fate'. IMMORTALIS: Cicero rarely mentions the gods without this epithet. SPARSISSE: Horace calls the soul divinae particulam aurae. TUERENTUR: rule, or guard, or care for.
Deinde addidit: Docere necessitatis est, delectare suavitatis, flectere victoriae.... Oportet igitur eloquentem ecclesiasticum, quando suadet aliquid quod agendum est, non solum docere ut instruat, et delectare ut teneat, verum etiam flectere ut vincat. De Doctrina Christiana, IV. 13. An esteemed friend, the Rev.
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