[108] Froissart.
[109] Hist. de M. Boucicaut.
[110] “Ains cheurent en la gueule de leurs ennemies, si comme est le fer sur l’enclume.” It is a queer comparison: the only apparent resemblance is in the thorough beating which they and the iron were both destined to undergo.
[111] Hist. de M. de Boucicaut; première partie, chaps. xxv. xxvi.
[112] Malcolm, History of Persia.
[113] Il. xxii. 60–76.
[114] vi. 447–461. Sotheby’s Homer.
[115] Weight for weight: to determine the sum which two minæ would correspond to in value is less easy.
[116] Herod, v. 77; vi. 79.
[117] See the instances of Fidenæ, Liv. iv. 34; Veii, v. 22.—Carthage. Appian.