Note 13 — JEUX D'ESPRIT AND MINOR POEMS, 1798-1824.
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"In short, the maxim for the amorous tribe is Horatian, 'Medio tu tutissimus ibis.'"
Don Juan, Canto V. stanza xvii. lines 8, 9. The "doctrine" is Horatian, but the words occur in Ovid, Metam., lib. ii. line 137.—Poetical Works, 1902, vi. 273, note 2.]