[325] Plut. Vit. Themist. ad init.
[326] “Equal to business.”
[327] He alludes to the following passage, St. Matthew xiii. 31: “Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed in his field; which indeed is the least of all seeds; but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.”
[328] Virg. Ecl. vii. 51.
[329] Vide. A. L. i. vii. 11.
[330] He was vanquished by Lucullus, and finally submitted to Pompey.—Plut. Vit. Lucull. 27.
[331] He alludes to the prophetic words of Jacob on his death-bed, Gen. xlix. 9, 14, 15: “Judah is a lion’s whelp; ... he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion.... Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.”
[332] Sums of money voluntarily contributed by the people for the use of the sovereign.
[333] Young trees.
[334] “A land strong in arms and in the richness of the soil.”—Virg. Æn. i. 535.