Cum tunicis sumet nova consilia et spes.

IVIT asellus atrox, inventa pelle leonis;

Graculus et pennas sumpsit et ingenium. Sprevit tela Phrygum juvenis dilectus Achilli; Spes et loricam sumpserat ille simul.

Sic vinosus Eques, cui non pro corpore virtus, Quem canit Avonæ ad flumina natus Olor,

Zelotypum vili falsurus corbe maritum,

Assumptas sensit spes tunicasque simul.

SHAKSPEARE.

MACBETH. Act 1. Scene 7.

If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly: If the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,
With his surcease, success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,—
We'd jump the life to come.-But, in these cases,
We still have judgment here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor: This even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips. He's here in double trust:
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues.

IDEM GRÆCE REDDITUM.

ΕΙ πεπράξεται τόδ' ἔργον, εἶτ ̓ ἂν ᾖ πεπραγμένον, πρακτέον καὶ τὴν ταχίστην· εἰ γὰρ ἡ διαφθορὰ εἰργαθεῖν ἔχοι τὸ μέλλον, εἰς θ ̓ ἅπαξ μάρψαι τέλος ἐλπίδων κείνου πίτνοντος, πλῆγμα θ ̓ ἓν μόνον τόδε εἰς τὰ νῦν τὸ πᾶν γένοιτο, καὶ τελεσφόρον πέρας, ἀλλὰ νῦν τοιᾶσδ ̓ ἐπ ̓ ἀκτῆς τοῦ παρεστώτος χρόνου ῥίψομεν κεῖνον τὸν ἄλλον· τῶν δὲ τοιούτων ἀεὶ ἡ δίκη καὶ νῦν ἔπεστιν· ὥστε καὶ διδάσκομεν φοινίας ἄλλως μαθήσεις, ὧν μετέρχεται πάλιν τοὺς ἐφευρόντας τὸ πῆμα, χἡ ταλαντούχος Δίκη πρὸς στόμ ̓ αὐτοῖσιν προτείνει φάρμακ', οἰκεῖον δέπας ἐκπιεῖν· ὁ δ ̓ ἐνθάδ' ἡμῖν καὶ διπλῶς ἐχέγγυος· * εἰμὶ γὰρ τὸ μὲν ξύναιμος ἐν νόμῳ θ ̓ ὑπήκοος κάρτα γὰρ τάδ' ἀντιτείνει— δεύτερον δὲ πρόξενος, ὅν γ' ἔδει θυραῖς ἀπείργειν τοῦ κτενοῦντος εἴσοδον, μὴ ξίφους αὐτὸν λαβέσθαι χερσίν· εἶθ ̓ ὁ κοίρανος δεῦρ ̓ ἀεὶ ξύνεστιν ἀρχῇ πρευμενὴς ἄγαν, κράτος τοῦτ ̓ ἔχων οὕτως ἄμομφον, ὥστ ̓ ἀνήσουσιν βοὴν ἱρεταὶ χαλκοστόμοισι δαιμόνων κηρύγμασιν,

*

ἔλαβες τὸν ἱκέτην ἐχέγγυον.

SOPH. C. C. 284.