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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. _Diog. Laert. _ VI. i. 4,
? 3: ? ?