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Sed tum forte cava dum personat aequora concha Demens, et canto vocat in certamina Divos. Ibid. Misenus, son of Oeolus, renowned The warrior trumpet in the field to sound; With breathing brass to kindle fierce alarms, And rouse to dare their fate in honourable arms. Swollen with applause, and aiming still at more, He now provokes the sea-gods from the shore. Dryden
Some of his fragments show the same sceptical tendencies that are prominent in Ennius. Pacuvius either improved his later style, or else confined its worst points to his tragedies, for nothing can be more classical and elegant than his epitaph, which is couched in diction as refined as that of Terence Adulescens, tametsi properas, te hoc saxum vocat Ut sese aspicias, delude quod scriptumst legas.
Then at the suggestion of the president, who quickly discovered my mental deficiencies, I was matriculated as a student at another university founded by the brethren of the same "Hard-shell Persuasion." I was but a dreamer, in the middle of my teens, dazed by conflicting opinions, but anxious to walk "quo dews vocat."
Of the like kind may be reckoned another stanza in the same book: Jussa coram non sine conscio Surgit marito, seu vocat institor, Seu navis Hispanae magister, Dedecorum pretiosus emptor. HOR. Lib. iii. Ode. vi. 29. The conscious husband bids her rise, When some rich factor courts her charms, Who calls the wanton to his arms, And, prodigal of wealth and fame, Profusely buys the costly shame.
... Vocat ingenti clamore Cithoeron, Taygetique canes ... Virg. Those who have searched into human Nature observe that nothing so much shews the Nobleness of the Soul, as that its Felicity consists in Action. Every Man has such an active Principle in him, that he will find out something to employ himself upon in whatever Place or State of Life he is posted.
Adsis o Cytherea: tuos te Caesar Olympo Et Surrentini litoris ara vocat. The poem has hitherto been assigned to a period twenty years later. But surely this youthful ferment of hope and anxiety does not represent the composure of a man who has already published the Georgics.
To conclude, as I am a compound of soul and body, I consider myself as obliged to a double scheme of duties; and think I have not fulfilled the business of the day when I do not thus employ the one in labour and exercise, as well as the other in study and contemplation. No. 116. Vocat ingenti clamore Cithaeron, Taygetique canes. Virg. Georg. iii. v. 43.
Vocat ingenti clamore Cithaeron, Taygetique canes, domitrixque Epidaurus equorum: Et vox assensu memorum ingeminata remugit. VIRG., Georg. iii. 43.
"Padre mio," Benedetto said, "truly I do not think of what may happen to me to-morrow. I think only of the words: 'Magister adest et vocat me! but not as being spoken by a supernatural voice. I was wrong not to understand that the Master is always present, and always calling me, you, every one! If only our soul be hushed, we may hear His voice!" A faint ray of sunshine glinted into the cell.
But what was happening out on the hills? What words was God uttering in his heart? And if This unexpected, formidable if flashing into his mind stopped the ponderer in his slow walk. "Magister adest et vocat te!" Perhaps the Divine Master Himself was even now calling Benedetto to serve Him in the habit of a monk.
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