{116a} Directness enlightens,
obliquity
and circumlocution darken.
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems
{95} Horat. in "Arte Poet. "
{106a} Livy, Sallust, Sidney, Donne, Gower, Chaucer, Spenser, Virgil,
Ennius, Homer, Quintilian, Plautus, Terence.
{110a} The interpreter of gods and men.
{111a} Julius Caesar. Of words, _see_ Hor. "De Art. Poet. ;" Quintil. 1.
8, "Ludov. Vives," pp. 6 and 7.
{111b} A prudent man conveys nothing rashly.
{114a} That jolt as they fall over the rough places and the rocks.
{116a} Directness enlightens, obliquity and circumlocution darken.
{117a} Ocean trembles as if indignant that you quit the land.
{117b} You might believe that the uprooted Cyclades were floating in.
{118a} Those armies of the people of Rome that might break through the
heavens. --Caesar. Comment. circa fin.
{124a} No one can speak rightly unless he apprehends wisely.
{133a} "Where the discussion of faults is general, no one is injured. "
{133b} "Gnaw tender little ears with biting truth. "--_Per Sat. _ 1.
{133c} "The wish for remedy is always truer than the hope. "--_Livius_.
{136a} "AEneas dedicates these arms concerning the conquering
Greeks. "--_Virg.
