Compels them by main force to bend the knee,
Albeit they were deemed unconquerable.
Number 10.
A boar with frothing lips and long sharp tusks,
Who, in his rage, despoiled men, fields and vineyards,
And by whom the whole world was ravaged,
He, by his courage, all alone, did slay.
[336] On March 4, 1858, at the Lassus sale, I saw a complete set of the Labours of Hercules, without the verses.
[337] The earliest book in which I have seen it, excluding the Thesaurus latinæ linguæ of 1536, and the Dictionarium Latino-Gallicum of 1538, which was a sequel to the first, and in which it was necessarily used (I saw these two books at M. Didot's), is a quarto pamphlet, published in 1537, on the occasion of the discussions between François I and Charles V, entitled: Exemplaria litterarum, etc.
[338] Later, Estienne had other floriated letters engraved at Tory's establishment, carried on by his widow. But the G was not then chosen to receive the artist's mark. See infra, under 1551.