Jas. iv. 6 and 1 Pet. v. 5.

The Benedictines remind us that Alexander and Xenophon, at least on some occasions, did so.

Non numina bona, sed omina mala.

Though "levis" was the word usually employed to signify the inconstancy of the Greeks, it is evidently here used, in opposition to "immanis" of the following clause, to indicate that the Greeks were more civilised than the barbarians, and not relentless, but, as we say, easily moved.

De Conj. Cat. c. 51.

Sallust, Cat. Conj. ix.

Ps. lxxxix. 32.

Matt. v. 45.

Rom. ii. 4.

So Cyprian (Contra Demetrianum) says, "Pœnam de adversis mundi ille sentit, cui et lætitia et gloria omnis in mundo est."