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The sinews of war.

Eschines (Adv. Ctesiph. ch. 53) ascribes to De mosthenes the expression ὑποτέτμηται τὰ νεῦρα τῶν Прауμάτш, "the sinews of affairs are cut." Diogenes Laertius, in his Life of Bion (lib. iv. c. 7, §3), represents that philosopher as saying ròν πλoÛτον εἶναι νεύρα πραγμάτων, "that riches were the sinews of business,” or, as the phrase may mean, “ of the state." Referring, perhaps, to this maxim of Bion, Plutarch says in his Life of Cleomenes (c. 27), "He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war." Accordingly, we find money called expressly Tá veûρа Tоû Tоλépov, "the sinews of war," in Libanius, Orat. xlvi. (vol. ii. p. 477, ed. Reiske), and by the Scholiast on Pindar, Olymp. i. 4 (comp. Photius, Lex. s. v. Meɣávoρos пλoúTOV). So Cicero Philipp. v. 2, nervos belli, infinitam pecuniam.”

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Adding insult to injury.

A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man; who, endeavouring to crush it, gave himself a heavy blow. Then said the fly, jeeringly: "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"

Quid facies tibi,

Injuriæ qui addideris contumeliam? Phædrus, The Bald Man and the Fly. Book v. Fable 3.

When at Rome, do as the Romans do.

St. Augustine was in the habit of dining upon Saturday as upon Sunday; but, being puzzled with

the different practices then prevailing (for they had begun to fast at Rome on Saturday), consulted St. Ambrose on the subject. Now at Milan they did not fast on Saturday, and the answer of the Milan saint was this : —

"When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday."

“Quando hic sum, non jejuno Sabbato: quando Romæ sum, jejuno Sabbato."

St. Augustine, Epistle xxxvi. to Casulanus. When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.

Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii. Sec. 4,
Mem. 2, Subs. I.

I see the right, and I approve it too,

Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.

Video meliora proboque;

Deteriora sequor.

Ovid, Metamorphosis, Book vii. Line 29. Translated by Tate and Stonestreet, ed. Garth.

The Art preservative of all arts.

From the inscription upon the façade of the house at Harlem, formerly occupied by Laurent Koster or Coster, who is charged, among others, with the invention of printing. Mention is first made of this inscription about 1628.

MEMORIE SACRUM

TYPOGRAPHIA

ARS ARTIUM OMNIUM

CONSERVATRIX.

HIC PRIMUM INVENTA

CIRCA ANNUM MCCCCXL.

That same man, that runnith awaie,
Maie again fight an other daie.

Erasmus, Apothegms, Trans. by Udall, 1542.

For those that fly may fight again,

Which he can never do that 's slain.

Butler, Hudibras. Part iii. Canto 3.

He that fights and runs away

May turn and fight another day;

But he that is in battle slain

Will never rise to fight again.

Ray's History of the Rebellion, p. 48. Bristol, 1752.
For he who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he who is in battle slain

Can never rise and fight again.

The Art of Poetry on a New Plan. Edited by Oliver
Goldsmith (?) Vol. ii. p. 147. London, 1761.

Sed omissis quidem divinis exhortationibus illum magis Græcum versiculum secularis sententiæ sibi adhibent. Qui fugiebat, rursus præliabitur: ut et rursus forsitan fugiat.

Tertullian, De Fuga in Persecutione, c. 10.

The corresponding Greek,

̓Ανὴρ ὁ φεύγων καὶ πάλιν μαχήσεται,

is ascribed to Menander in Dübner's edition of his Fragments (appended to Aristophanes in Didot's Bibliotheca Græca), p. 91.

Qui fuit, peut revenir aussi ;
Qui meurt, il n'en est pas ainsi.

Scarron (1610-1660).

Souvent celuy qui demeure
Est cause de son meschef;
Celuy qui fuit de bonne heure

Peut combattre derechef.

From the Satyre Menippée, 1594.

Junius, Aprilis, Septémq; Nouemq; tricenos,
Vnum plus reliqui, Februs tenet octo vicenos,
At si bissextus fuerit superadditur vnus.
Harrison's Description of Britaine, prefixed to
Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577.

Thirty dayes hath Nouember,
Aprill, June, and September,
February hath xxviii alone,
And all the rest have xxxi.

Grafton's Chronicles of England, 1590.

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November,

February eight-and-twenty all alone,
And all the rest have thirty-one;
Unless that leap year doth combine,
And give to February twenty-nine.

The Return from Parnassus. London, 1606.

Thirty days hath September,

April, June, and November,

All the rest have thirty-one
Excepting February alone:

Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine,

Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.

Common in the New England States.

Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth,

Thirty days to each affix;

Every other thirty-one

Except the second month alone.

Common in Chester County, Pa. among the Friends.

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their name to eat an oyster. Butler, Dyet's Dry Dinner. 1599.

Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read!

Alonso of Aragon was wont to say, in commendation of age, that age appeared to be best in these four things.

Melchior, Floresta Española de Apothegmas o sentencias, &c., ii. I. 20. Bacon, Apothegms, 97.

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

John Webster, Westward Ho. Act ii. Sc. 2.

What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything: in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.

Shakerly Marmion, The Antiquary. Act ii. Sc. I.

I love everything that's old. Old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer. Act i. Sc. I. •

Nose, nose, nose, nose,

And who gave thee that jolly red nose?

Sinament and Ginger, Nutmegs and Cloves,
And that gave me my jolly red nose.1

Ravenscroft's, Deuteromela, Song No. 7. 1609.

Begone, dull Care, I prithee begone from me; Begone, dull Care, thou and I shall never agree. Playford's Musical Companion. 1687.

1 Cf. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Act i. Sc. 3.

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