Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.
Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
In naked beauty most adorned.
Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?