Proverbs 4:1

Pro 4:1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Ver. 1. Hear, ye children. ] Audite senem, iuvenes, quem iuvenem senes audierunt: Hear me, now an old man, O ye youths, whom old men once gladly heard, when I was but a youth. With this speech Augustus pacified his mutinous army: -

“ Aspice, vultus

Ecce meos, utinamque oculos in pectore posses

Inserere, et patrias intus deprendere curas.” a

“Behold my looks; and oh that thou couldst see

Mine anxious thoughts and careful heart for thee!”

a Sol Phaetonti, apud Ovid. Met.