Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, chapter 17, section 24

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[24] Similarly a pilot will desire [p. 337] to bring his ship safe to harbour; but if he is swept out of his course by a storm, he will not for that reason cease to be a pilot, but will say in the wellknown words of the old poet¹ “Still let me steer straight on!”

1 Ennius, Ann. 483 (Vahlen).

Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.

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