Fragments

[Nonius, 321M] . . . and that nature herself not only would invite, but even compel it.

[Diomedes, GL 1.339K] . . . let him strive.

[Diomedes, GL 1.374K] . . . they excel.

[Servius, on Aeneid 6.877] Fannius, it is a hard cause to praise a boy; for it is not the achievement that is to be praised, but the promise.

[Lactantius, Divine Institutes, 1.18.11] "If it is right for any man to ascend within the regions of the heavenly ones, for me alone the greatest gate of heaven lies open" . . . "It is so indeed, Africanus; for to Hercules too that same gate lay open."

[Seneca, Letters, 108.32sq.] "in very deed" . . . "of his own self" . . . Since we have been called back from the very goal by his interruption . . . "for whom no citizen nor enemy was able to render a fit recompense for his deeds."

[Anonymous, Paradoxa, Koronne, Bielowski] Whosoever win for themselves the esteem of men by feasts and banquets and lavish spending, plainly show that they lack that true honour which is born of virtue and worth.

[Codex ms., note 458, p. 82, Ossolineum Library] . . . that good faith must be shaken gently and calmly, not by force and onset . . .