"Quo tendis inertem Rex periture, fugam? Nescis heu, perdite! nescis Quem fugias; hostes incurris, dum fugis hostem. Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim."
— Danger

January 1, 1970

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Phillippe Gaultier de Lille ("D. Chatillon"). Alexandriad, Book V. 298. Found in the Menagiana. Ed. by Bertrand de la Monnoie. (1715). Source said to be Quintus Curtius. See Andrews—Antient and Modern Anecdotes, p. 307. (Ed. 1790). (See also Homer—Odyssey, Book XII, line 85. Merchant of Venice, III. 5).