185

Αμεινόν ἐστι παντὸς εἵνεκ ̓, ὦ κόραι,
Πάγον προσίζειν τῶνδ ̓ ἀγωνίων θεών.
Κρεῖσσον δὲ πύργου βωμὸς, ἄῤῥηκτον σάκος.

Sedete hic modo: ego hinc vos tamen tutabor.

197 Καὶ μὴ πρόλεσχος, μηδ' ἐφολκὸς ἐν λόγῳ Γένῃ· τὸ τῇδε κάρτ ̓ ἐπίφθονον γένος.

With this and the advice given by Danaus to his daughters, line 992, compare

199

The steps

Young ladies tread, left to their own discretion,
However wisely printed, are observed,
And construed as the lookers-on presume:
Point out thy ways then in such even paths,
As thine own jealousies from others' tongues
May not intrude a guilt, though undeserved.
In thy use
Of time and of discourse be found so thrifty,
As no remembrance may impeach thy rest.

Ford's Lady's Trial, act i. sc. 1.
Μέμνησο δ ̓ εἴκειν χρεῖος εἶ ξένη φυγάς.
Θρασυστομεῖν γὰρ οὐ πρέπει τοὺς ἥσσονας.

Burgess quotes,

201

Ξένος ὢν ἀκολούθει τοῖς νόμοις ἐγχωρίοις.

Gnom. Monostich.

Φρονούντως πρὸς φρονοῦντας.

One instance of this construction in Latin will be sufficient.

Una dies."

"Misero misere," aiunt, " omnia ademit

Lucret. iii. 911.

Wurthely I am wrappyd in a wurthy wede.

Coventry Mysteries, lately edited for the Shakspeare Society, by J. O. Halliwell, Esq. "Adoration of the Magi."

In English it is far less common:

Bloody and guilty, guiltily awake.

Richard III. act v. sc. 3.

I am now muddied in Fortune's moat, and smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure.

211

All's Well, &c. act v. sc. 2.

What a wild journey

Have I more wildly undertaken ?

Beaumont and Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage, act i. sc. 2.

Αγνόν τ' Απόλλω φυγάδ ̓ ἀπ ̓ οὐρανοῦ θεόν.
Εἰδὼς ἂν αἶσαν τήνδε συγγνώη βροτοῖς.

223 Ὄρνιθος ὄρνις πῶς ἂν ἁγνεύοι φαγών ;

Cognatis parcit maculis similis fera.

Neque hic lupis mos, nec fuit leonibus
Unquam, nisi in dispar, feris.

The hunting tribes of air and earth
Respect the brethren of their birth;
Nature, who loves the claim of kind,
Less cruel chase to each assign'd.

Ev'n tiger fell, and savage bear,
Their likeness and their lineage spare.

Juv. xv. 160.

Horace, Epode vii. 11.

Scott's Rokeby, canto iii.

The tiger wars not on the tiger brood;
Man only is th`universal wrey of man

By faith and prayer, this crosier in my hand,
I drove th' envenom'd serpent from thy land;
The shepherd in his bow'r might sleep, or sing,
Nor dread the adder's tooth, nor scorpion's sting.

Swift, on the Sudden Drying of St. Patrick's Well.

And it need scarcely be added, that he has reversed the μνήμην ἀντίμισθον ἐν

λιταῖς.

271

Αργείαι γένος

Εξευχόμεσθα, σπέρματ' εὐτέκνου.

C

A common expression.

Οἅ ῥα καὶ ἀθανάτου ῥίζης γένος εὐχετάασθε.

293

Orpheus Argonaut. i. 291.

Ταῦτα των παλλαγμάτων.

A form much adopted by the Latin dramatists, with whom it became more common than even with the Greeks themselves.

Loquere id/negotii quidquid est.

Plaut. Merc. i. 2.

Plaut. Pœnul. act. iv. sc. 2.

Ter. Andr. i. 5.

The brize upon her, like a cow in June.

Antony and Cleopatra, act iii. sc. 8.

The classical references to this insect in Virgil and elsewhere are numerous and generally known.

324 Πόνου δ ̓ ἴδοις ἂν οὐδαμοῦ ταυτὸν πτερόν.

At thy appearance, Grief itself is said

To shake his wings.

Cowley's Hymn to Light.

That grief, sequester'd from the public stage,
Might smooth his feathers.

Cowper's Charity.

I adduce these in case any one should wish to give any more literal English to πτερὸν than kind or complexion.

For this Epithet, see Theognis 175. Musæus 210. Pindar. Olymp. vi. 110.

The blasting childhood of the chilly morn

Is almost grown a youth, and over climbs
Yon eastern hill.

Brewer's Lingua, act i. sc. 5.

But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.

Hamlet, act i. sc. 1.

Star of descending night! thy steps are stately on thy hill.
Ossian, Songs of Selma.

370

Personuit canibus. Tum rusticus, Haud mihi vitâ
Est opus hâc, ait.

Αγος μὲν εἴη τοῖς ἐμοῖς παλιγκότοις.

So Virg. Æn. ii. 190. Georg. iii. 513. Ovid. Amor. iii. Eleg. xi. 16. Moschus iv. 123. Sil. Italic. ii. 54. Æn.. viii. 483, &c.

The same form of deprecation has been adopted by the English poets.

He seekes by trait'rous trains to spill

Her person, and her sacred selfe to slay:

That, oh ye Heav'ns! defend, and turne away

From her unto the miscreant himselfe.

Spenser's Fairy Queen, b. v. c. 8. st. 19.