_ I can suggest no better
explanation
of
this oracular epigram than that the tailor's bill is an enemy of a
slender purse.
this oracular epigram than that the tailor's bill is an enemy of a
slender purse.
Robert Herrick
_ Ovid, _Ars Am.
_ iii.
82:
Continua messe senescit ager.
923. _Revenge. _ Tacitus, _Hist. _ iv. 3: Tanto proclivius est injuriae
quam beneficio vicem exsolvere; quia gratia oneri, ultio in quaestu
habetur.
927. _Praise they that will times past. _ Ovid, _Ars Am. _ iii. 121:--
Prisca juvent alios: ego me nunc denique natum
Gratulor; haec aetas moribus apta meis.
928. _Clothes are conspirators.
_ I can suggest no better explanation of
this oracular epigram than that the tailor's bill is an enemy of a
slender purse.
929. _Cruelty_. Seneca _de Clem. _ i. 24: Ferina ista rabies est,
sanguine gaudere et vulneribus; (i. 8), Quemadmodum praecisae arbores
plurimis ramis repullulant [H. uses repullulate, -tion, 336, 794], et
multa satorum genera, ut densiora surgant, reciduntur; ita regia
crudelitas auget inimicorum numerum tollendo. Ben Jonson, _Discoveries_
(_Clementia_): "The lopping of trees makes the boughs shoot out quicker;
and the taking away of some kind of enemies increaseth the number".
931. _A fierce desire of hot and dry. _ Cp. note on 683.
932. _To hear the worst_, etc. Antisthenes ap.
Continua messe senescit ager.
923. _Revenge. _ Tacitus, _Hist. _ iv. 3: Tanto proclivius est injuriae
quam beneficio vicem exsolvere; quia gratia oneri, ultio in quaestu
habetur.
927. _Praise they that will times past. _ Ovid, _Ars Am. _ iii. 121:--
Prisca juvent alios: ego me nunc denique natum
Gratulor; haec aetas moribus apta meis.
928. _Clothes are conspirators.
_ I can suggest no better explanation of
this oracular epigram than that the tailor's bill is an enemy of a
slender purse.
929. _Cruelty_. Seneca _de Clem. _ i. 24: Ferina ista rabies est,
sanguine gaudere et vulneribus; (i. 8), Quemadmodum praecisae arbores
plurimis ramis repullulant [H. uses repullulate, -tion, 336, 794], et
multa satorum genera, ut densiora surgant, reciduntur; ita regia
crudelitas auget inimicorum numerum tollendo. Ben Jonson, _Discoveries_
(_Clementia_): "The lopping of trees makes the boughs shoot out quicker;
and the taking away of some kind of enemies increaseth the number".
931. _A fierce desire of hot and dry. _ Cp. note on 683.
932. _To hear the worst_, etc. Antisthenes ap.
