And stood over the vast summits of mountains,
And threaded the recesses, penetrating to the foundations of the groves.
FROM PLUTARCH
Heaven being willing, even on an osier thou mayest sail.
[Thus rhymed by the old translator of Plutarch:
"Were it the will of heaven, an osier bough
Were vessel safe enough the seas to plough."]
FROM SEXTUS EMPIRICUS
Honors and crowns of the tempest-footed
Horses delight one;
Others live in golden chambers;
And some even are pleased traversing securely
The swelling of the sea in a swift ship.
FROM STROBÆUS
This I will say to thee:
The lot of fair and pleasant things
It behooves to show in public to all the people;
But if any adverse calamity sent from heaven befall
Men, this it becomes to bury in darkness.
Pindar said of the physiologists, that they "plucked the unripe fruit of wisdom."
Pindar said that "hopes were the dreams of those awake."
FROM CLEMENS OF ALEXANDRIA
To Heaven it is possible from black
Night to make arise unspotted light,
