Note 566 — BOOK THE SEVENTEENTH.
Theodore Alois Buckley translation · Edition 4
Footnote 566: (return) A prayer well worthy of Ajax. Ammian. Marcell. xxviii.: “Per horrorem tenebrarum—quo tempore hebetari solent obstrictæ terroribus mentes; ut inter innumera multa Ajax quoque Homericus docet, optans perire potius luce, quam pati formidinis augmenta nocturnæ.” Cf. Longin. ix.