_
Carminibus
confide bonis.
Robert Herrick
Numbers xi.
5, and Juv.
, xi.
9-11.
_Cassius, that weak water-drinker. _ Not, as Dr. Grosart queries:
"Cassius Iatrosophista, or Cassius Felix? " but C. Cassius Longinus, the
murderer of Caesar. Cp. Montaigne, II. 2, and Seneca, _Ep. _ 83: "Cassius
tota vita aquam bibit" there quoted.
201. _To trust to good verses.
_ Carminibus confide bonis. Ovid, _Am. _
III. ix. 39.
_The Golden Pomp is come. _ Aurea pompa venit, Ovid, _Am. _ III. ii. 44.
"Now reigns the rose" (nunc regnat rosa) is a common phrase in Martial
and elsewhere. For the "Arabian dew," cp. Ovid, _Sappho to Phaon_, 98:
Arabo noster rore capillus olet.
_A text . . .
_Cassius, that weak water-drinker. _ Not, as Dr. Grosart queries:
"Cassius Iatrosophista, or Cassius Felix? " but C. Cassius Longinus, the
murderer of Caesar. Cp. Montaigne, II. 2, and Seneca, _Ep. _ 83: "Cassius
tota vita aquam bibit" there quoted.
201. _To trust to good verses.
_ Carminibus confide bonis. Ovid, _Am. _
III. ix. 39.
_The Golden Pomp is come. _ Aurea pompa venit, Ovid, _Am. _ III. ii. 44.
"Now reigns the rose" (nunc regnat rosa) is a common phrase in Martial
and elsewhere. For the "Arabian dew," cp. Ovid, _Sappho to Phaon_, 98:
Arabo noster rore capillus olet.
_A text . . .
