[144] Rarum est, etc.—Quintilian, x, 7.
[145] Tot circa, etc.—M. Seneca, Suasori?, i, 4.
[146] Cic.—Cicero, Acad., i, 45.
[147] Nec me pudet, etc.—Cicero, Tusc., i, 25.
[148] Melius non incipiet.—The rest of the quotation is quam desinet. Seneca, Epist., 72.
[149] They win battles.—Montaigne, in his Essais, ii, 12, relates that the Portuguese were compelled to raise the siege of Tamly on account of the number of flies.