"When Nature," says Cicero, de Legg. i. 9, "had made other animals abject, and consigned them to the pastures, she made man alone upright, and raised him to the contemplation of heaven, as of his birthplace and former abode;" a passage which Dryden seems to have had in his mind when he translated the lines of Ovid cited above. Let us add Juvenal, xv, 146. "Sensum à coelesti demissum traximus arce, Cujus egent prona et terram spectantia." "To us is reason giv'n, of heav'nly birth, Denied to beasts, that prone regard the earth." [6] All our power is situate in the mind and in the body--_Sed omnis nostra vis in animo et corpore sita_. All our power is placed, or consists, in our mind and our body. The particle _sed,_ which is merely a connective, answering to the Greek _dé_, and which would be useless in an English translation, I have omitted. [7] Of the mind we--employ the government--_Animi imperio--utimur_. "What the Deity is in the universe, the mind is in man; what matter is to the universe, the body is to us; let the worse, therefore, serve the better."--Sen. Epist. lxv. _Dux et imperator vitae mortalium animus est,_ the mind is the guide and ruler of the life of mortals. --Jug. c. 1. "An animal consists of mind and body, of which the one is formed by nature to rule, and the other to obey."--Aristot. Polit. i. 5. Muretus and Graswinckel will supply abundance of similar passages. [8] Of the mind we rather employ the government; of the body, the service--_Animi imperio, corporis servitio, magis utimur_. The word _magis_ is not to be regarded as useless. "It signifies," says Cortius, "that the mind rules, and the body obeys, _in general_, and _with greater reason_." At certain times the body may _seem to have the mastery_, as when we are under the irresistible influence of hunger or thirst. [9] It appears to me, therefore, more reasonable, etc.--_Quo mihi rectius videtur_, etc. I have rendered _quo_ by _therefore_. "_Quo_," observes Cortius, "is _propter quod_, with the proper force of the ablative case. So Jug. c. 84: _Quo_ mihi acrius adnitendum est, etc; c. 2, _Quo_ magis pravitas eorum admiranda est. Some expositors would force us to believe that these ablatives are inseparably connected with the comparative degree, as in _quo minus, eo major_, and similar expressions; whereas common sense shows that they can not be so connected." Kritzius is one of those who interprets in the way to which Cortius alludes, as if the drift of the passage were, _Quanto magis animus corpori praestat, tanto rectius ingenii opibus gloriam quaerere_. But most of the commentators and translators rightly follow Cortius. "_Quo_," says Pappaur, "is for _quocirca_."