(iv.) _Hints for Verses._--Ovid is the acknowledged master of elegiac verse. Therefore, whenever you have a passage of his elegiacs to translate, you should, if possible, learn it by heart. (The Arion story as told by Ovid is well worth a place in any collection of _Ediscenda_.) If you cannot do this, notice useful phrases and turns of expression, e.g.:-- _Line 1._--A question, instead of a bare statement, where no answer is expected. Cf. ‘Quod crimen dicis praeter amasse meum?’ (Dido to Aeneas, Ov. _Her._ vii. 164.) _Lines 3, 4._--Parataxis and repetition of idea. _Line 9._--+Vocalis Arion+, apostrophe. _Line 2._--Simplicity; alliteration. (v.) _The Poem as Literature._--Ovid here depicts in language purposely exaggerated the power of music over the hearts of men, and even over nature, animate and inanimate. This gives point to the strong contrast in the lines which follow, where greed dominates all the feelings. Shakespeare refers to the love of music as a test of character:-- ‘The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.’ DEMONSTRATION III. PART I. _A rash promise rashly believed._ Hannibali alia in his locis bene gerendae rei fortuna oblata est. |I| M. Centenius fuit cognomine Paenula, insignis inter primipili centuriones et magnitudine corporis et animo. |II| Is perfunctus militia, per P. Cornelium Sullam praetorem in senatum introductus, petit a Patribus, uti sibi quinque milia militum darentur: |III| se peritum et hostis et regionum, brevi operae pretium facturum et, quibus artibus ad id locorum nostri et duces et exercitus capti forent, iis adversus inventorem usurum. |IV| Id non promissum magis stolide, quam stolide creditum, tamquam eaedem militares et imperatoriae artes essent! |V| Data pro quinque octo milia militum; pars dimidia cives, pars socii. |VI| Et ipse aliquantum voluntariorum in itinere ex agris concivit, ac prope duplicato exercitu in Lucanos pervenit, ubi Hannibal, nequiquam secutus Claudium, substiterat. |VII| LIVY. _A rash promise rashly believed._