"'Sdeath! with a page—perchance a king
Had reconciled him to the thing;
But with a stripling of a page—
I felt—but cannot paint his rage."—Byron.
[50] εἴτε δαίμων, εἴτε ἥρως, εἴτε ληστής.
For an instance of intercourse between demigods—ἥρωες—and mortals, see Herod. vi. 69.
[51] The evidence of slaves was always taken with torture, and their testimony was not otherwise received. For an animated picture of the severity sometimes practised towards slaves, male and female, by a capricious mistress, see Juv. vi. 475, 495.
[52] παντοδαπή τις ἧν.
This passage may be illustrated by a parallel one in the beginning of B. vii.
[53] Pliny, B. iv. 5. "Tot sinus Poloponnensem oram lancinant, tot maria allatrant."
[54] "They bend their tongues like their bow for lies."
[55] "Their tongue is as an arrow shot out."—Jer. ix. 3, 8. See also S. James iii. 5-9.
"Strangulat inclusus dolor atque cor æstuat intus
Cogitur et vires multiplicare suas."—Ovid. Trist. I. 63.