24] "said of the
Dialogues
of
Plato, that Jupiter, if it were his nature to use language, would speak
like him".
Robert Herrick
A. But in 1632 he supplicated for the
degree of M.B., and Dr. Grosart's note--"Herrick, no doubt, playfully
transmuted 'Doctor' into 'Physician'"--is misleading. He may have cared
for the minds and bodies of the Westminster boys at one and the same
time.
_The Roman language.... If Jove would speak_, etc. Cp. Ben Jonson's
_Discoveries_: "that testimony given by L. Aelius Stilo upon Plautus who
affirmed, "Musas si latine loqui voluissent Plautino sermone fuisse
loquuturas". And Cicero [in Plutarch, ?
24] "said of the
Dialogues
of
Plato, that Jupiter, if it were his nature to use language, would speak
like him".
967. _Upon his spaniel, Tracy._ Cp. _supra_, 724.
971. _Strength_, etc. Tacitus, _Ann._ xiii. 19: Nihil rerum mortalium
tam instabile ac fluxum est, quam fama potentiae, non sua vi nixa.
975. _Case is a lawyer_, etc. Martial, I. xcviii. Ad Naevolum
Causidicum. Cum clamant omnes, loqueris tu, Naevole, tantum.
