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"Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?" Opening the mouth

wide gives a promise of something great to come, if nothing great

does come, this is a case of [Greek: chaunotes] or fruitless and

unmeaning hiatus; the transference to the present subject is

easy.

[18] In like manner we talk of laudable ambition, implying of

course there may be that which is not laudable.

[19] An expression of Bishop Butler's, which corresponds exactly

to the definition of [Greek: nemesis] in the Rhetoric.

[20] That is, in the same genus; to be contraries, things must be

generically connected: [Greek: ta pleiston allelon diestekota ton

en to auto genei enantia orizontai]. Categories, iv. 15.

[21] "[Greek: Deuteros plous] is a proverb," says the Scholiast

on the Phaedo, "used of those who do anything safely and

cautiously inasmuch as they who have miscarried in their first

voyage, set about then: preparations for the second cautiously,"

and he then alludes to this passage.