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The onion, scallion, leek, which housewives highly rate,
Their kinsman garlic then.

Drayton's Polyolbion, song xx.

For further instances of this kind of relationship, see Agamemnon, 480.

477

487

Οφεων δὲ πλεκτάναισι περίδρομον κύτος.

Centum angues idem Lernæaque monstra gerebat
In clypeo, et sectis geminam serpentibus hydram.

Θέλων

Sil. Italic. ii. 158,

Εξιστορῆσαι μοῖραν, ἐν χρεία τύχης.

See Agamemnon, 1638.

493

Ὁ μὲν γὰρ πυρπνόον Τυφῶν ἔχει,

Ὑπερβίῳ δὲ Ζεὺς πατὴρ ἐπ ̓ ἀσπίδος
Σταδαῖος ἧσται, διὰ χερὸς βέλος φλέγων
Κούπω τις εἶδε Ζηνά που νικώμενον.
Τοιάδε μέντοι προσφίλεια δαιμόνων

Πρὸς τῶν κρατούντων δ ̓ ἐσμὲν, οἱ δ ̓ ἡσσωμένων
Εἰκὸς δὲ πράξειν ἄνδρας ὧδ ̓ ἀντιστάτας,
Εἰ Ζεύς τε Τυφῶ καρτερώτερος μάχη,
Ὑπερβίῳ τε, πρὸς λόγον τοῦ σήματος,
Σωτὴρ γένοιτο Ζεὺς ἐπ ̓ ἀσπίδος τυχών.

Count this, and then, sir, mine th' advantage is ;
He's stronger far than I; my God, than his.

Cowley's Davideis, iii. 487.

The strife

With me hath end; all the contest is now

'Twixt God and Dagon; Dagon hath presum'd

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to enter lists with God,

His deity comparing and preferring
Before the God of Abraham. He, be sure,
Will not connive, or linger, thus provok'd,
But will arise, and his great name assert:
Dagon must stoop, and shall ere long receive
Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him
Of all these boasted trophies won on me,
And with confusion blank his worshipper.

Milton's Samson Agonistes.

507

Πρόσθε πυλᾶν κεφαλὴν ἰάψειν.

He fell not, as the warrior falls,

Whose breast defends his native walls;

To treason Agis bow'd his head.

Home's Agis.

Another usage of this verb is illustrated in the Supplices, line 542.

511

Bel.

Ὄμνυσι δ' αἰχμὴν, ἣν ἔχει, μᾶλλον θεοῦ
Σέβειν πεποιθώς;

In vain shall Dagon, thy false hope, withstand;
In vain thy other god, thine own right hand.

'Midst them (the stars) mark
Yon earliest, and the brightest.

Arb. Well?

Bel.

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Cowley's Davideis, iii. 573.

Arb. My star is in this scabbard; when it shines,

It shall out-dazzle comets.

'Tis thy natal ruler-thy birth planet.

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516

4. Reto Nov. Alioqui Tapping -He'},

Στείχει δ ̓ ἴουλος ἄρτι διὰ παρηΐδων,
"Ωρας φυούσης, ταρφὺς ἀντέλλουσα θρίξ.

A period of life of which this physical description is often given by the classic Augatil-cum ind

poets.

Bæticus.

Adspersus primâ lanugine malas

Ad.at Phon.

Sil. Italic. xvi. 469.

His age in nature's youthful prime appear'd,
And just began to bloom his yellow beard.

Dryden's Palamon and Arcite, b. iii. 1. 1358.

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Ελθὼν δ ̓ ἔοικεν οὐ καπηλεύσειν μάχην.

527
"Non cauponantes bellum," according to Ennius, Ap. Cic. Off.
Robes.

His merchant wiles! Oh grant me patience, Heaven!
Was it by merchant wiles I gain'd you back
Toulon, when proudly on her captive tow'rs
Wav'd high the English flag? Or fought I then
With merchant wiles, when hand in hand I led
Your troops to conquest? Fought I merchant like,
Or barter'd I for victory, when death

Strode o'er the reeking streets with giant stride?
Fall of Robespierre, act ii. by Southey.

Straight forward courage scorn'd to fight afarre,
By blows, at hazard, trafficking with death.

Earl of Stirling's Jonathan, book i.

The sense seems to be, "to deal with battle in a small way."
Ὁ δὲ τοιόσδ ̓ ἀνὴρ,

529

532

f.eees. vid. ad. 536 Philos

Μέτοικος, Αργει δ ̓ ἐκτίνων καλὰς τροφὰς,
Πύργοις ἀπειλεῖ τοῖσδ ̓ ἃ μὴ κραίνοι θεός.

Sprung from a distant boundary of Greece,
A foreigner in Sparta, cherish'd there,
Instructed, honour'd, not unworthy held
To fight for Lacedæmon in her line
Of discipline and valour, lo! my son,
The hour is come to prove thy gen'rous heart;
That in thy hand, not ill intrusted, shine
The spear and buckler, to maintain the cause
Of thy protectress.

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538

Ὃς οὐκ ἐάσει γλῶσσαν, ἐργμάτων ἄτερ,
Ἔσω πυλῶν ῥέουσαν, ἀλδαίνειν κακά.

Some read ě¿w πvλŵv here, but the ǎтeρ épуμάτwv may be enough to justify the following quotations.

Nature, thou know'st, knowing what an unruly engine the tongue is, hath set teeth round about for watchmen; now, sir, my master's old age hath coughed out all his teeth, and that's the cause it runs so much at liberty.

542

546

Brewer's Lingua, act iii. sc. 2.

God, of his endlesse goodnesse,
Walled a tongue with teeth and lippes eke,
For man shulde him advisen what he speke.

Chaucer's Manciple's Tale.

Ἔξωθεν εἴσω τῷ φέροντι μέμψεται,
Πυκνοῦ κροτησμοῦ τυγχάνουσ ̓ ὑπὸ πτόλιν.

I only with an oaken staff will meet thee,
And raise such outcries on thy clatter'd iron, &c.
Milton's Samson Agonistes.

Τριχὸς δ ̓ ὀρθίας πλόκαμος ἵσταται.

Instances will be given at the commencement of the Choephora.

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A sufficient number of Latin instances are given by Monk, in his Hippolytus.

I have protested in her cause for to omit no pain,
Nor travail, till I have subdued the flying serpent's force.
G. Peele's Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes.

Diaran arose at my side, and the youthful strength of Dargo.

Ossian's Calthon and Colmal.

Where the might of Gabriel fought.

Milton's Paradise Lost, vi.

Call my dogs!call white-breasted Bran, and the surly strength of Luath. Ossian's Fingal, b. vi.

562

569

Η τοῖον ἔργον καὶ θεοῖσι προσφιλές,
Καλόν τ' ἀκοῦσαι, καὶ λέγειν μεθυστέροις,
Πόλιν πατρῷαν καὶ θεοὺς τοὺς ἐγγενεῖς
Πορθεῖν, στράτευμ' ἐπακτὸν ἐμβεβληκότα.
The end of war's uncertain; but this certain,
That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit
Which thou shalt thereby reap, is such a name,
Whose repetition will be dogg'd with curses;
Whose chronicle thus writ, — The man was noble,
But with his last attempt he wip'd it out;
Destroy'd his country and his name remains
To th' ensuing age, abhorr'd."

Coriolanus, act v. sc. 3.

Ἔγωγε μὲν δὴ τήνδε πιανῶ χθόνα,
Μάντις κεκευθὼς πολεμίας ὑπὸ χθονός.
Μαχώμεθ', οὐκ ἄτιμον ἐλπίζω μόρον.

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That studies not to seem, or show great,
But be.

B. Jonson's King's Entertainment at Welbeck.

He rather joyed to be, than seemen such.

Spenser's Fairy Queen, b. iii. c. vii. st.-29.

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