It had had presidents of renown and professors of brilliant attainments; but Parson Dorrance held a position more enviable than all.

Here he exclaimed, "O most enviable of men, who had Homer to sing thy deeds!" Which made the Eastern conqueror to cry, "O fortunate young man!

But the restrictions thus stringently and laboriously imposed by custom and police on Roman poetry stifled its very breath, Not without reason might Naevius declare the position of the poet under the sceptre of the Lagidae and Seleucidae enviable as compared with his position in free Rome.(23)

" In another, after telling me that he had been reading some books of travel in Egypt and Central America, he said: "Next to a military life I think that of a travellera genuine traveller, who turns his back upon railroads and guidesmust be the most exciting and the most enviable under heaven.