: and whether the right never grows more, right by success.
10. Haeremus ff.: We are in constant intercourse with heaven.--Haskins.
11. Sponte dei: by the inspiration of God.--Haskins. 12, 13.
dixit...licet: the inner light of conscience. auctor: the Creator.
15-17. These lines suggested the passage in Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey:

I have felt...a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean, and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.

virtus: Grotius quotes Hierocles: 'God hath not upon earth a place more
truly his than the pure heart,' and the Pythian oracle: 'I joy in
reverent mortals even as in Olympus.' Superos...ultra: Why further do we
seek the gods? Iuppiter...moveris: All that you see, and all your
feelings, that is Jupiter.--Haskins. Cf. Seneca, _De Beneftciis_, 4. 8:
Quocumque te flexeris, ibi ilium videbis occurrentem tibi: nihil ab illo
vacat, opus suum ipse implet. 22. Servata fide: true to his word. 23.
populis: dative, to the multitude, i.e. of Orientals waiting to consult
the oracle.

_4._ 10. Fortuna fuit: i.e. was due to fortune rather than to virtue.
Fortuna is predicate nominative. 14. quam...Iugurthae: i.e. than to win
the victories of Marius.

_5._ This noble portrait is that of an ideal Stoic. Roman life had been
deeply imbued with this philosophy, which had passed beyond the limits
of the schools to become at once a religious creed and a practical code
of morals for everyday use. See Mackail, _Latin Literature_, p. 171. 2.
servare...tenere: to hold fast the mean, to observe the due limit. These
and the following phrases are Stoic formulae. 4. Cf. Seneca, _Epistula_
95 (15.3). 52-53, where he says 'we are members of a great body.' 'Let
this line be both in our hearts and on our lips:

"Human I am,
And every human interest is mine."'

See the entire passage. 12. sibi nata: selfish.

VIII. STATIUS.

40-95 A.D.

Statius, whose father before him was a poet, was born at Naples. His
works consist of the _Thebais_, an epic in imitation of the _Aeneid_ and
having for its subject the story of the Seven against Thebes; the
_Achilleis_, intended to celebrate the deeds of Achilles, but never
completed; and the _Silvae_, a collection of thirty-one miscellaneous
poems,