BOOK II PART III
reladon of impressions to the uneasy passions.
It is thus our uncertainty concerning any
minute circumstance relating to a person
encreases our apprehensions of his death
or misfortune. Horace has remarked this
phaenomenon.
_Ut assidens implumi bus pullus
Avis Serpentium allapsus tirnet,
Magis relictis; not, ut adsit Auxili
Latura plus presentibus.
(As a bird, watching over her
fledgelings, is more afraid of their
being attacked by snakes if she
were to leave them even though,
were she to stay, she would not be
any more capable of helping them,
when they were with her.)