Job 6:12

Is my strength the strength of stones? - I am neither a rock, nor is my flesh brass, that I can endure all these calamities. This is a proverbial saying, and exists in all countries. Cicero says, Non enim est e saxo sculptus, aut e Robore dolatus Homo; habet corpus, habet animum; movetur mente, movetur sensibus . "For man is not chiselled out of the rock, nor hewn out of the oak; he has a body, and he has a soul; the one is actuated by intellect, the other by the senses." Quaest. Acad. iv. 31. So Homer, where he represents Apollo urging the Trojans to attack the Greeks: -

Νεμεσησε δπ ' Απολλων,<-144 Περγαμου εκκατιδων· Τρωεσσι δε κεκλετπ ' αυσας·Ορνυσθπ ' ἱπποδαμοι Τρωες, μηδπ ' εικετε χαρμηςΑργειοις· επει ου σφιλιθος χρως, ουδε σιδηρος,Χαλκον ανασχεσθαι ταμεσιχροα βαλλομενοισιν .

Illiad, lib. iv., ver. 507.