Birmingham.
_"Bis dat, qui cito dat"_ (Vol. vi., p. 376.).--_"Sat cito, si sat
bene."_--The first of these proverbs reminded me of the second, which was a
favourite maxim of Lord Chancellor Eldon. (See _The Life of Lord Chancellor
Eldon_, vol. i. p. 48.) I notice it for the purpose of showing that Lord
Eldon followed (perhaps unconsciously) the example of Augustus, and that
the motto is as old as the time of the first Roman emperor, if it is not of
more remote origin. The following is an extract from the Life of Augustus,
Sueton., chap. XXV.:
"Nil autem minus in imperfecto duce, quam festinationem temeritatemque,
convenire arbitrabatur. Crebro itaque illa jactabat, [Greek: Speude
bradeos]. Et:
'[Greek: asphales gar est' ameinon e thrasus stratelates].'