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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Majestatem res data dantis habet. The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver. Ovid—Epistolce Ex Panto. W. 9. 68. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Seneca) Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quse pretiosa facit. Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. Ovid—Heriodes. XVII. 71. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 312 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Dicta docta pro datis Smooth words in place of gifts. Plautus—Asinaria. Act III. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 312 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Altera manu fert lapidem, panem ostentat altera. In one hand he bears a stone, with the other offers bread. Plautus—Aulularia. Act II. 2. 18. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Matthew) The horseleech hath two daughters, crying Give, give. Proverbs. XXX. 15. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 312 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Bis dat qui cito dat. He gives twice who gives quickly. Credited to Publtus Mimus by Langids, in Polyanth. Noviss. P. 382. Erasmus— Adagia. P. 265, (Ed. 1579) quoting Seneca. Compare Seneca—De Beneficiis. II. 1. Homer—Iliad. XVIII. 98. Title of epigram in a book entitled Joannis Owen, Oxeniensis Angli Epigrammatum. (1632) P. 148. Also in Manoulus Sacer—Concionum Maralium, Cottectus ex VoluminUms R. P. Hieremice Drexelii. (1644) Euripides—Bhes. 333. Ausonius—Epigram. 83. 1. (Trans.) Alciatus—Emblemata. 162. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 312 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He always looked a given horse in the mouth. Rabelais—Works. Bk. I. Ch. XI. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Jerome) Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving. Richard Realf—Indirection. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 312 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Fabius Verrucosus beneficium ab homine duro aspere datum, panem lapidosum vocabat. Fabius Verrucosus called a favor roughly bestowed by a hard man, bread made of stone. Seneca—De Beneficiis. II. 7. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Matthew)