...lent. What coward councils would your madness move ? Jove can defend. ...May we not trust in Jove ? Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen, but his country's cause ; But why should'st thou suspect the war's success, None fears it more, as none promotes it less ;...

...me these sentiments in a book written in favour of the aristocratic party, I can have no doubt that Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause2. But we will reserve these matters for our walks3 at the compitalitia. Do not forget, the day...

...irrevocable nod, 275 To right, to left, unheeded take your way, While I the dictates of high heaven obey. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. 284 But why shouldst thou suspect the war's success? None fears it more, as none promotes it less :...

...descend; 280 'To right, to left, unheeded take your way, ' While I the dictates of high lieav'n ohey. ' Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, ' And asks no omen but his country's cause. e But why should'st thou suspect the war's success? ' None fears it more, as none promotes it less:...

...country is the best of all * P;ir. Lost, briok v. " auguries:"* or, as Pope has very well expressed it, Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen, but his country's cause. If we attend to all the circumstances, and reflect that both Hector and Homer believed in auguries,...

...where descend ; To right, to left, unheeded take your way. While I the dictates of high Heaven obey. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. But why shoiildst thou suspect the war's success ? None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though...

...Irft, unheeded take your w:iy, While I the dictates of high Heaven obey. Without a sign his s\vord the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. But why sliouldst thou suspect the war's success f None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though...

...to encounter danger, though they have not sacrificed, may employ [what Hector says to Polydamas,] " Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country'^ cause "." 1 Stesichorus signified by this enigma, that if the Locrian* behaved insolently...

...witty, becomes the poetic dress, though it may not be picturesque.— Instances : •— — -— " His sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause, May I, or noble life, or death obtain, Death, ill-exchang'd for bondage, or for pain." '' O let not...

...where descend ; To right, to left, unheeded take your way, While I the dictates of high heaven obey. Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause. But why shouldst thou suspect the war's success ? None fears it more, as none promotes it less : Though...