Pars obscura cavis
celebrabant
orgia cistis,
Orgia, quae frustra cupiunt audire profani.
Robert Herrick
. sacred Orgies._ Herrick's glosses show that the passage he
had in mind was Catullus, lxiv. 256-269:--
Harum pars tecta quatiebant cuspide thyrsos
... ... ... ...
Pars obscura cavis
celebrabant
orgia cistis,
Orgia, quae frustra cupiunt audire profani.
10. _No man at one time can be wise and love._ Amare et sapere vix deo
conceditur. (Publius Syrus.) The quotation is found in both Burton and
Montaigne.
12. _Who fears to ask_, etc. From Seneca, _Hippol._ 594-95. Qui timide
rogat ... docet negare.
