eye to being able "to buy up the land of others, and not others thine" (341). He says, indeed, in v. 686, that "money is life to miserable men," in much the same terms as Pindar after him; but this is only as a dissuasive from unseasonable voyages, and because "in all things the fitting season is best." In effect he upholds the maxim that "money makes the man," though it is but fair to add that he prescribes right means to that end. To get rich, a man must work:—
Is natural consort to the idle boor."—C.
"Hard work will best uncertain fortune mend."—D.
He must save, too, on the principle that "many a little makes a mickle," or, as Hesiod hath it,
In small time makes a good possession."—C.
It is no use, he sagaciously adds, to spare the liquor when the cask is empty:—
To save the cask, but spare the middle wine;"
—E. 503, 504.
nor to procrastinate, because
—413.
and the man that would thrive must take time by the forelock, repeating to himself, as well as to his slaves at midsummer,—
