"Give sorrow words; the grief that doth not speak,
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break."—Macbeth.
[56] The various operations when a vessel quitted or entered the harbour are described in two passages of Homer.—
"The crew
Cast loose the hawsers, and embarking, filled
The benches....
He, loud exhorting them, his people bade
Hand brisk the tackle; they obedient rear'd
The pine-tree mast, which in its socket deep
They lodg'd, then strained the cordage, and with thongs
Well twisted, drew the shining sail aloft."—Odyss. ii. 419.
"Around within the haven deep, their sails
Furling, they stow'd them in the bark below.
Then by its tackle lowering the mast
Into its crutch, they briskly push'd to land,
Heav'd anchors out, and moor'd the vessel fast."—Il. i. 4331
"Provehimur portu; terræque urbesque recedunt."
Vir. Æn. iii. 72.
[58] παρασκηνῶν.
[59] Tatius appears to have had in his mind the story of the death of Atys, son of Crœsus. See Herod. B. i. 37.
Compare the spirited account of the Boar-hunt and the death of Tlepolemus in the viiith book of Apuleius.
[60] Πάτροκλον πρόφασιν, a proverb derived from a passage in the Iliad, xix. 302:—