Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favours the daring. VERGIL-Eneid. X. 284 and 458. Same phrase or idea found in CICERO-De Finibus. III. 4. and Tusc. II. 4. CLAUDIANUS-Ad Probin. XLIII. 9. ENNIUS-Annales. V. 262. LIVY-Bk. IV. 37; Bk. VII. 29; Bk. XXXIV. 37. MENANDER-In STOBUS Flor. VII. P. 206. Ed. 1709. OVID-Metamorphoses. X. 11. 27. PLINY THE YOUNGER -Epistles. VI. 16. TACITUS-Annales. IV. 17. (See also OVID) A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver. DEMOSTHENES, bribed not to speak against HARPALUS, he pretended to have lost his voice. PLUTARCH quotes the accusation as above. Also elsewhere refers to it as the "silver quinsey." |