"Lord of earth and air,
O King! O Father, hear my humble prayer!
Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore;
Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more!
If Greece must perish, we thy will obey,
But let us perish in the face of day."
Pope's Trans., 1. 727, etc.
[166] See Gibbon, vol. III. p. 97 (Bohn's edition).
[167] This is an allusion to the story of Castor and Pollux bringing news of the victory gained at the battle of Regillus to Domitius (B.C. 496). The legend adds that they stroked his black beard, which immediately became red; from which he and his posterity derived the surname of Ænobarbus.—See Dion. Hal. vi. 13.
[168] Marius Maximus was an author who wrote an account of the lives of the Cæsars.
[169] § 20 is mutilated, so that no sense can be extracted from the remainder of it.
[170] Two brothers who had been colleagues in several important offices, and who were at last put to death together by Commodus.
[171] The end of § 22 is also mutilated.
[172] This passage, again, seems hopelessly mutilated.
[173] Cicero, de Amicitia, c. xxi.