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Life, he tells them when they bid him leave them to their fate, is worthless without them; and the "commune periclum, una salus" runs throughout all his wanderings. The common love of his boy is one of the bonds that link Dido with Æneas, and a yet more exquisite touch of poetic tenderness makes his affection for Ascanius the one final motive for his severance from the Queen.
"Nunquam periclum sine periclo vincitar." Horace mentions Laberius not uncomplimentarily, though he professes no interest in the sort of composition he represented. Perhaps he judged him by his audience. They are described as Mimicae fabulae, versibus plerunque iambicis conscriptae, and appear to have differed in some way from the actual mimes, probably in not being represented on the stage.
See a fuller account by the Earl of Buchan and Dr. Kippis in the Biog. Brit. and the recently published one by Mr. Frazer Tytler. No. 84. Tolle periclum, Jam vaga prosiliet frenis natura remotis. HOR. Lib. ii. Sat. vii. 73. But take the danger and the shame away, And vagrant nature bounds upon her prey.
"Qui mihi non credit faciat licet ipse periclum, Mox fuerit studis aequior ille meis." Harrington Vizard, Esq., caught Miss Fanny Dover on the top round but one of the steps of his library. She looked down, pinkish, and said she was searching for "Tillotson's Sermons." "What on earth can you want of them?" "To improve my mind, to be sure," said the minx.
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