Quod antecedit tempus, maxima venturi supplicii pars est.

The time that precedes punishment is the severest part of it.

d.

SENECA-De Beneficiis. II. 5.

Sequitur superbos ultor a tergo deus.

An avenging God closely follows the haughty.

e. SENECA-Hercules Furens. 385.

Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publicâ rependitus.

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. TACITUS-Annales. XIV. 44.

f. Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.

g. TACITUS-Annales.

IV. 35.

Ah, miser! et si quis primo perjuria celat,
Sera tamen tacitis Pœna venit pedibus.

Ah, wretch! even though one may be able at first to conceal his perjuries, yet punishment creeps on, though late, with noiseless step. h. TIBULLUS-Carmina. I. 9. 3.

RESPONSIBILITY.

Culpam majorum posteri luunt.

Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. a. QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS-De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni. VII. 5.

REST.

O quid solutis est beatius curis !
Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino
Labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum
Desideratoque acquiescimus lecto.

Hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis.

O, what is more sweet than when the mind, set free from care, lays its burden down; and, when spent with distant travel, we come back to our home, and rest our limbs on the wished-for bed? This, this alone, repays such toils as these! b.

CATULLUS-Carmina. 31. 7.