A line not less frequently quoted was suggested for enquiry in a note on The Rape of Lucrece: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris: But the author of this verse has not, I believe, been discovered.

peremptum clade tuentibus Plus semper illo qui moritur pati Datur, doloris dum profundos Pervia mens aperit recessus.

Imbecillitas genuum non sine aliquantulo doloris inter ambulandum quem a prandio magis sensi.

[Macbeth]; parsque est meminisse doloris [Lat.]

castris a Rege Stephano, spoiled of his goods by king Stephen, vi doloris absorptus, atque in amentiam versus, indecentia fecit, through grief ran mad, spoke and did he knew not what.

Vides illum praecipitem locum, illud flumen, dost thou see that steep place, that river, that pit, that tree, there's liberty at hand, effugia servitutis et doloris sunt, as that Laconian lad cast himself headlong (non serviam aiebat puer) to be freed of his misery: every vein in thy body, if these be nimis operosi exitus, will set thee free, quid tua refert finem facias an accipias?

If thou alone wert distressed, it were indeed more irksome, and less to be endured; but when the calamity is common, comfort thyself with this, thou hast more fellows, Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris; 'tis not thy sole case, and why shouldst thou be so impatient?

'Tis some comfort in such a case to have companions, Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris; Who can say he is free?

Moestitia cor quasi percussum constringitur, tremit et languescit cum acri sensu doloris.

Qui mentem subjecit timoria dominationi, cupiditatis, doloris, ambitionis, pudoris, felix non est, sed omnino miser, assiduis laborius torquetur et miseria. 1674.

Vi doloris et tristitiae ad insaniam pene redactus.

Sedet aegrotus cespite viridi, et cum inclementia Canicularis terras excoquit, et siccat flumina, ipse securus sedet sub arborea fronde, et ad doloris sui solatium, naribus suis gramineas redolet species, pascit oculos herbarum amiena viriditas, aures suavi modulamine demulcet pictarum concentus avium, &c. Deus bone, quanta pauperibus procures solatia! 3249.

divitiarum acquisitio magni laboris, possessio magni timoris, arnissio magni doloris. 3716.

Per 24 horas sensum doloris omnem tollit, et ridere facit.

Causa omnis et origo omnis prae sentis doloris tute es; isti enim tui oculi, per meos oculos ad intima delapsi praecordia, acerrimum meis medullis commovent incendium; ergo miserere tui causa pereuntis.

subeat non causa doloris.

'Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.

Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris, lix.

Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris, iv.

One night, when he had fallen asleep towards morning, it seemed to him that a voice kept saying, Surgite cum sederitis, qui manducatis panem doloris (Rise up from your sitting, ye who eat the bread of sorrow).

" At the conclusion of the same note, the authorship of "Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris," is said to remain undiscovered; but it appears to be a corrected form of a line in Albertus ab Eyb's Margarita Poetica (Nuremberg, 1472.

Solamen Miseris socios habuisse Doloris: but I alone.