John Trapp on Daniel 1:18

Ver. 18. Now at the end of the dayes] i. e. After three years time of ſtudying. See on ver. 5. Account is to be exacted of time, and profiting. Pliny ſaid to his Nephew,Plin. Epiſt. when he ſaw him walk out ſome hours without ſtudying, Poteras has horas non perdere, you might have ſpent theſe hours better. Ignatius when he heard a clock ſtrike, would ſay, Here's one hour more now paſt, that I have to anſwer for. Archbiſhop Ʋſſier on his death-bed begg'd hard of God to pardon his Omiſſions, who yet was never known to omit an hour,His life by D. Bernard. but ever employed in his Maſters buſineſs, reading, writing, preaching, reſolving doubts, &c.