Note 61 — Chapter XII
Reading edition
The passage is as follows:—
"Olim quod vulpes ægroto cauta leoni Respondit, referam: quia me vestigia terrent Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum." Horatii Flacci Epistolarum, 1. i.
It is thus imitated by Pope:—
"Faith I shall give the answer Reynard gave; I cannot like, dread Sir, your royal cave; Because I see, by all the tracks about, Full many a beast goes in, but none comes out."