20 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



" si videas et redeas," as though reverti and vidisse were co-ordinate, 

 and both dependent on possis. The punctuation of Mr. Macleane 

 (a comma at possis only) seems to point yet more directly to this 

 misunderstanding. 



The true construction is obvious enough after a glance. The 

 whole clause from ut to aluta is parenthetic and should stand by 

 itself : vidisse is the subject of operae preiiurn est. 



Grande operae pretium est — ut tenso folle reverti 



Inde domum possis tumidaque superbus aluta 



Oceani monstra et juveaes vidisse niariaos. 

 " A precious reward this for all your trouble, to have faced the monsters 

 of the deep and the mermen, and all for the sake of returning home 

 with full purse and the pride of stuffed money-bags." 

 i. e. It is not worth your while to face the great leviathan for the sake of 

 a full purse. 



In his second edition Mr. Mayor has altered his punctuation cor- 

 rectly and introduced a comma at aluta; but his notes are still silent. 

 Yet the fact that previous to this only one edition, and that the 

 most modest of all, the school edition of Mr. Prior, had printed the 

 passage correctly (Prior also added a correct ti-anslation), seems to 

 show that a note is not unnecessary. 



Horace, Epistle I., 1, lines 13-19. 



Ac ne forte roges quo me duce quo lare tuter, 

 Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri 

 Quo me cunque rapit tempestas deferor hospes. 

 Nunc agilis fio et mersor civilibus undis, 

 Virtutis verae custos rigidusque satelles : 

 Nunc in Aristippi furtim jiraecepta relabor 

 Et mihi res non me rebus subjungere conor. 



The. difficulty of the passage lies in the last two lines. What is 

 the connection between them 1 The most natural and, I believe, the 

 correct interpretation makes the last an amplification of the line 

 before, and a definition at once of " Aristippi praecepta," and of the 

 Stoic creed contained in lines 16 and 17. 



"At one time," says Horace, "I am all for action, and I plunge 

 into the ocean of public life the guardian and stiff-necked champion 

 of straight-laced righteousness ; at another time I fall away uncon- 

 sciously to Aristippus' maxims, and try to make the world serve me, 

 instead of serving it." < 



