[22] "Curæ leves loquuntur; ingentes stupent."—Sen. Hipp. A. 2. S. iii.
[23] In the Second Book of the "Ethiopics," the author remarks on this peculiarity of the Buccaneers:—"βονκόλοι γὰρ ἅλλα τε πρὸς το φοβερώτερον φαίνεσθαι, καὶ δὴ καὶ τὴν κόμην εἰς ὀφρὺν ἕλκουσι καὶ σοβοῦσι τῶν ὥμων ἐπιβαίνουσαν."
[24] In Xen. Cyrop. ii. 3. 17, there is an account of a sham fight, where half the soldiers pelt with clods, the other half armed with canes.
.... "I did consent,
And often did beguile her of her tears,
When I did speak of some distressful stroke
That my youth suffer'd. My story being done,
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.
. . . . . .
She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd
And I lov'd her that she did pity them."—Shaksp. Othello.
"Post terga juvenum nobiles revocat manus,
Et mœsta vittâ capita purpureâ ligat;
Non thura desunt, non sacer Bacchi liquor.
. . . . . .
Ipse—sacerdos—ipse funestâ prece
Letale carmen ore violento canit."
Sen. Thyestes. iv. 686.
.... "Magne regnator Deum.
Tam lentus audis scelera? tam lentus vides
Ecquando sævâ fulmen emittes manu,
Si nunc serenum est?"—Sen. Hipp. 671.
[28] ῥαψωδός—one of a class of persons who got their living by reciting the poems of Homer, and who is here represented as accoutreing himself and the others in character.