1. The Μακίστου σκοπαί—
2. The Μεσαπίου φυλακες—
3. The ορος Αιyίπλαyκτον.
What, where, and why, so called? The rest I know, or can find in Dictionary, and Map. But for these—
Lempriere
Is no-where;
Liddell and Scott
Don’t help me a jot:
When I’m off, Donnegan
Don’t help me on again.—
So I’m obliged to resort to old Donne again!
Rhyme and Epigram quite worthy of the German.
To W. H. Thompson.
Fragment of a Letter written in Nov. 1862.
I took down a Juvenal to look for a Passage about the Loaded Waggon rolling through the Roman Streets. [34] I couldn’t find it. Do you know where it is? Not that you need answer this Question, which only comes in as if I were talking to you. I remember asking you whence Æschylus made his Agamemnon speak of Ulysses as unwilling at first to go on the Trojan Expedition. I see Paley refers it to some Poem called the Cypria quoted by Proclus. I was asking Donne the other Day as to some of the names of the Beacon-places in Clytemnestra’s famous Speech: and I then said I believed—but only believed, as an inaccurate Man, not wishing to
implicate others—that you, Thompson, had once told me that you thought the Chain of Fires might have passed from Troy to Mycenæ in the way described—just possibly might, I think—I assure you I took care not to commit your Credit by my uncertain Memory, whatever it was you said was only in a casual way over a Cigar. Are you for Ατης θυλλαι—Ατης θυλαι—ζωσι? [35a] a point I don’t care a straw about; so don’t answer this neither.