Part 83 (1/2)

221 ”No thought of flight, None of retreat, no unbecoued fear”

--”Paradise Lost,” vi 236

222 --_One of love_ Although a bastard brother received only a small portion of the inheritance, he was commonly very well treated Priaamy is directly asserted in the Iliad Grote, vol ii p 114, note

223 ”Circled with foes as when a packe of bloodie jackals cling About a goodly palmed hart, hurt with a hunter's bow Whose escape his niht knees have power to move: but (maistred by his wound) Ee him round, And teare his flesh--when instantly fortune sends in the powers Of sohte they flie and he devours

So they around Ulysses prest”

--Chap,_ &c

”In those bloody fields Where Simois rolls the bodies and the shi+elds Of heroes”

--Dryden's Virgil, i 142

225 ”Where yon disorder'd heap of ruin lies, Stones rent from stones,--where clouds of dust arise,-- Amid that smother, Neptune holds his place, Below the wall's foundation drives hisfroil, ii 825

226 --_Why boast we_

”Wherefore do I assu to accept as great a share Of hazard as of honour, due alike to hins, and so h honour'd sits”

--”Paradise Lost,” ii 450

227 --_Each equal weight_

”Long ti”

--”Paradise Lost,” vi 245

228 ”He on his iht_”

--”Paradise Lost,” vi 831

229 --_Renown'd for justice and for length of days,_ Arrian de Exp

Alex iv p 239, also speaks of the independence of these people, which he regards as the result of their poverty and uprightness

Soian,” _ie_ ” their mares,” as an epithet applicable to numerous tribes, since the oldest of the Samatian nomads made their mares' milk one of their chief articles of diet The epithet abion or abion, in this passage, has occasionedas we read it, either ”long-lived,” or ”bowless,” the latter epithet indicating that they did not depend upon archery for subsistence

230 Compare Chapman's quaint, bold verses:--

”And as a round piece of a rocke, which with a winter's flood Is from his top torn, when a shoure poured from a bursten cloud, Hath broke the naturall band it had within the roughftey rock, Flies ju everie shocke, And on, uncheckt, it headlong leaps till in a plaine it stay, And then (tho' never so impelled), it stirs not any way:-- So Hector,--”

231 This book forreeable interruption to The continuous round of battles, which occupy the latter part of the Iliad It is as well to observe, that the sameness of these scenes renders many notes unnecessary

232 --_Who to Tydeus owes, ie_ Dioni, e placide, e tranquille Repulse, e cari vezzi, e liete paci, Sorrisi, parolette, e dolci stille Di pianto, e sospir tronchi, e molli baci”