Musæo contigens cuncta lepore.
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUS-De Rerum Natura.
IV. 9.
Verba toga sequeris, junctura callidus acri,
Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores
Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.

Confined to common life thy numbers flow,
And neither soar too high nor sink too low;
There strength and ease in graceful union
meet,

Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet;

Yet powerful to abash the front of crime And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme.

Minimum decet liberè cui multum licet.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

C. SENECA-Troades. 336.

Quod non potest vult posse, qui nimium potest.

He who is too powerful, is still aiming at that degree of power which is unattainable. d. SENECA-Hippolytus. 215.

Malè imperando summum imperium amittitur.

The highest power may be lost by misrule. e. SYRUS-Maxims.

Cupido dominandi cunctis affectibus flagrantior est.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

f. TACITUS-Annales. XV. 53.

Imperium cupientibus nihil medium inter summa et præcipitia.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

Nulla res carius constat quam quæ precibus empta est.

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione muta æstimat.

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

t.

CICERO Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comodo. X.

PREPARATION.

In omnibus negotiis prius quam aggrediare, adhibenda est præparatio diligens.

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

u.

CICERO-De Officiis. I. 21.

In pace ut sapiens aptarit idonea bello. Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.

บ. HORACE-Satiræ. II. 2. 111.