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qualem commendes, etiam atque etiam aspice, ne mox incutiant aliena tibi peccata pudorem.
— Look round and round the man you recommend,
For yours will be the shame should he offend.
— Book I, epistle xviii, line 76 (translated by John Conington).
— Variant translation: Study carefully the character of the one you recommend, lest his misdeeds bring you shame.
qualem commendes, etiam atque etiam aspice, ne mox incutiant aliena tibi peccata pudorem.
horace— Look round and round the man you recommend,
For yours will be the shame should he offend.Book I, epistle xviii, line 76 (translated by John Conington).Variant translation: Study carefully the character of the one you recommend, lest his misdeeds bring you shame.
Verum ubi correptum manibus vinclisque tenebis, tum variae eludent species atque ora ferarum Fiet enim subito sus horridus atraque tigris squamosusque draco et fulva cervice leaena, aut acrem flammae sonitum dabit atque ita vinclis excidet, aut in aquas tenues dilapsus abibit. Sed quanto ille magis formas se vertet in omnes, tanto, nate, magis contende tenacia vincla, donec talis erit mutato corpore, qualem videris, incepto tegeret cum lumina somno.
virgil— Thus surely bound, yet be not over bold,
The slippery god will try to loose his hold:
And various forms assume to cheat thy sight;
And with vain images of beasts affright;
With foamy tusks, he seems a bristly boar,
Or imitates the lion's angry roar;
Breaks out in crackling flames to shun thy snares,
Hisses a dragon, or a tiger stares;
Or with a wile thy caution to betray,
In fleeting streams attempts to slide away.
But thou, the more he varies forms, beware
To strain his fetters with a stricter care.
Till, tiring all his arts, he turns again
To his true shape, in which he first was seen.Book IV, lines 405–414 (translated by John Dryden); of Proteus.
