ght and sun
because they show me my Clinia; I will run into the fire for his sake, and
if you did but see him, I know that you likewise would run with me." So
Philostratus to his mistress, [5434]"Command me what you will, I will do
it; bid me go to sea, I am gone in an instant, take so many stripes, I am
ready, run through the fire, and lay down my life and soul at thy feet,
'tis done." So did. Aeolus to Juno.

------"Tuus o regina quod optas
Explorare labor, mihi jussa capescere fas est."

"O queen it is thy pains to enjoin me still,
And I am bound to execute thy will."

And Phaedra to Hippolitus,

"Me vel sororem Hippolite aut famulam voca,
Famulamque potius, omne servitium feram."

"O call me sister, call me servant, choose,
Or rather servant, I am thine to use."

[5435] "Non me per altas ire si jubeas nives,
Pigeat galatis ingredi Pindi jugis,
Non si per ignes ire aut infesta agmina
Cuncter, paratus [5436]ensibus pectus dare,
Te tunc jubere, me decet jussa exequi."

"It shall not grieve me to the snowy hills,
Or frozen Pindus' tops forthwith to climb.
Or run through fire, or through an army,
Say but the word, for I am always thine."

Callicratides in [5437]Lucian breaks out into this passionate speech, "O
God of Heaven, grant me this life for ever to sit over against my mistress,
and to hear her sweet voice, to go in and out with her, to have every other
business common with her; I would labour when she labours; sail when she
sails; he that hates her should hate me; and if a tyrant kill her, he
should kill me; if she should die, I would not live, and one grave should
hold us both." [5438]_Finiet illa meos moriens morientis amores_. Abrocomus
in [5439]Aristaenetus makes the like petition for his Delphia,
--[5440]_Tecum vivere amem, tecum obeam lubens_. "I desire to live with
thee, and I am ready to die with thee." 'Tis the same strain which
Theagines used to his Chariclea, "so that I may but enjoy thy love, let me
die presently:" Leander to his Hero, when he besought the sea waves to let
him go quietly to his love, and kill him coming back. [5441]_Parcite dum
propero, mergite dum redeo_. "Spare me whilst I go, drown me as I return."
'Tis the common humour of them all, to contemn death, to wish for death, to
confront death in this case, _Quippe queis nec fera, nec ignis, neque
praecip