"... of ocean's waves
The multitudinous smile."

[2] Ωξεῖαι.

[3]

"Qualis populeâ mœrens Philomela sub umbrâ
Amissos queritur fœtus; quos durus arator
Observans nido implumes detraxit; at illa
Flet noctem, ramoque sedens miserabile carmen
Integrat, et mœstus late loca questibus implet."
Virg. G. iv. 511.

[4] Έρμαῖ—four-cornered stone pillars ending with a bust of Mercury, and set up in public places.

[5] ἔλαθον σαγηνευθἐντες. For an account of the Persian mode of clearing a conquered country by joining hands and so sweeping the whole face of it, see Herod. vi. 31.

[6]

".... Simul ac vaga luna decorum
Protulit os."—Hor. I S. viii. 21.

[7]

"A precious ring that lightens all the hole;
Which like a taper in some monument
Doth shine upon the dead man's earthy cheeks
And shows the ragged entrails of this pit."
Titus Andronicus.