"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 Phædrus, 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.