prudens: 1.3.22. n.--futuri temporis exitum: the issue of the future. For the commonplace, cf. Pind. O.12.7-9; Solon, fr. 17; Isoc. 13.2; Eurip. Alcest. 785; Thucyd. passim; Benn, Greek Philosophers, 1.46; 2.126; Peele, 'But things to come exceed our human reach |And are not painted yet in angel's eyes'; Pope, Essay on Maii,' Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate| All but the page prescribed the present state'; Emerson, Experience, 'God delights to isolate us every day, and hide from us the past and the future. . . . He draws down before us an impenetrable screen,' etc. Cf. Bacchyl. 16. 32, 10.45.
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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