Sunderland.
_On Quotations_ (Vol. vi., p. 408.).--There can be no doubt that quotations
have frequently been altered, to make them more apt to the quoter's
purpose, of which I believe the following to be an instance. We frequently
meet with the quotation, "Nullum numen _abest_, si sit prudentia," with a
reference to Juvenal. I have not been able to find the passage in this
shape, and presume it is an alteration from the address to Fortune, which
occurs twice in his _Satires_, Sat. x. v. 365, 366., and Sat. xiv. v. 315,
316.:
"Nullum numen _habes_, si sit prudentia: nos te
Nos facimus, Fortuna, Deam, coeloque locamus."
The alteration is evidently not a mere verbal one, but changes entirely the
meaning and allusion of the passage.