SOME APPOSITE QUOTATIONS.
[To TIM EDITOR or THE ° SPRCTATOR-.1 Sur,—Some apposite quotations from the Greek and Latin classics bearing on the war have recently been adduced—es,., in the Times two Virgilian passages (a) on Lord Roberts. visit to the front; (b) on the command of the sea. Many others could no doubt be added. I venture to suggest the following:— (1) " voaspor Let,02or qir dropfav roe Noe itapas, atager Saklereass." — War which takes away the comfortable provision of daily fife is a hard master.—Thurydides III., 82."
(2) Much of the dramatic colloquy (Thaw. V., 85) between the Athenian envoys and the Government of Melos is the shameless avowal of "the good old plan, That they should take who have the power and they should keep who ran"; while there is the BEM hollow defence for the violation of that island's neutrality ae in the case of Belgium.
(3) ettNir or al'Aerov rte!, ri 3' ea medroo."—Sing sorrow, sing sorrow, but triumph the good !—Arschydas, Ag., 121.
(4) "58pts 9ure6et 1.6parror. "—Insolence breeds the tyrant.— &Aosta, Oaf. Tyr., 873.
(5) "Mimi movet Euphrates, Mine Germania bellum."—Virg.f, Georg. L, 509. (6) "Hie, ait, hie pacem temerataque jura relinquo, Te Fortuna, sequor. Precut hint jam fondera aunts, Credidimus fatis, utendum est judiee —Lucas, Pharsal. L, 296
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