Sir William Temple's account of the Netherlands.
Stoicus? antiqui præsertim ætate Metelli.
Nunc totus Graias, nostrasque habet orbis Athenas.
Gallia causidicos docuit facunda Britannos:
De conducendo loquitur jam rhetore Thule. Sat. 15.
Sir William Temple's account of the Netherlands.
Lib. v. The same author ascribes taciturnity to that people; a new proof that national characters may alter very much. Taciturnity, as a national character, implies unsociableness. Aristotle in his Politics, book ii. cap. 2. says, that the Gauls are the only warlike nation, who are negligent of women.
Babylonii maxime in vinum, & quæ ebrietatem sequuntur, effusi sunt. Quint. Cur. lib. v. cap. 1.
Plut. Symp. lib. i. quæst. 4.