[14] "Et serves animæ dimidium meæ."—Hor. I. Od. iii. 8.
[15] εἱσαγγιλεὺς. See Herod. III. 84.
[16] It would be unfair to deprive the reader of the very quaint rendering of this passage in the version of 1717: "Merœbus, young and bashful, and wonderfully tickled at the thoughts of a bride, blushed through his black skin, his face looking like a ball of soot that had taken fire."
[17] Οὔτως ὠγύγιος. See the description and bearing of Dares.—Virg. Æn. v. 368, 385.
[18] Τῶν παρ' αὐτοῖς ἀραχνιών—literally, of spiders, see Tatius, B. iii.
[19] In the original it is "ant-gold" χρυσόν μυρμηκιαν, turned up by the "myrmex," an animal between a dog and fox in size, supposed to be the ant-eater. See note vol. i. p. 378, of Blakesley's Herodotus. William Lisle, the poet, thus improves upon the "ant-gold:"—
"A yoke of gryphons chain'd with that fine gold
Which emmots, nigh as big as Norfolke sheepe,
At sand-hill side are said to gath'r and keepe."
The reader will of course remember Milton's allusion to the gryphons. Paradise Lost, B. ii. 945.
[20] αυτοσχεδίως κατηγορηθέν.
[21] This animal was among the number of those, in the destruction of which the Emperor Commodus exhibited his skill in the arena.—See Gibbon, i. 153, (note).