In quo me somnusque meus male prodidit, et tu,
pro facinus! somnis insidiate meis.'
[2176]. To his contre-ward, i.e. toward his country. Cf. 'To Thebes-ward'; Kn. Ta. 109 (A 967).
[2177]. A twenty devil way, in the way of twenty devils; i.e. in all sorts of evil ways or directions; cf. Can. Yem. Ta., G 782.
[2178]. His fader, king Ægeus (l. 1944). The story is that Theseus went to Crete in a ship with a black sail, in token of his unhappy fate. He had agreed to exchange this for a white sail, if his expedition was successful; but this he omitted to do. Hence Ægeus, 'seeing the black sail afar off, being out of all hope ever more to see his son again, took such a grief at his heart, that he threw himself headlong from the top of a cliff, and killed himself.'—Shak. Plutarch, p. 284.
[2182]. Atake, overtaken with sleep; cf. C. T. 6966 (D 1384).
[2186]. 'Perque torum moueo brachia; nullus erat'; Her. x. 12.
'Alta puellares tardat arena pedes.
Interea toto clamanti littore, Theseu!' id. 20.