I subjoin the note upon the lines in which it appears.
"Bis dat qui cito dat," in Mimis Publii. "Beneficium inopi bis dat,
qui dat celeriter." Proverb, Bis dat, &c.
Referring to the Sentences of Publius Syrus, published, with the
additional Fables of Phaedrus, from the Vatican MSS., by Angelo Mai,
I found the line thus given:
"Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter."
The same idea, I believe, occurs in Ovid. Query whether it is not
a thought naturally presenting itself to the mind, reflected by
memory, confirmed by experience, and which some Mimic author has
made proverbial by his terse, gnomic form of expression.
S.H.
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PARALLEL PASSAGES.
I take the liberty of sending you several parallel passages, which may
probably appear to you worthy of insertion in your valuable paper.
1.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."
Shakspeare: _Julius Caesar_.
"There is an hour in each man's life appointed
To make his happiness, if then he seize it.
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