And Shirley:
"How little room do we take up in death,
That, living, knew no bounds!"
And Webster's Duchess of Malfy:
"Much you had of land and rent;
Your length in clays's now competent."
So K. Henry VI.:
"And of all my lands
Is nothing left me but my body's length."
And Dryden's Antony:
"The place thou pressest on thy mother Earth
Is all thy empire now."
Cf. Æsch., S. Theb., 731. Soph., Œd. Col., 789. Shakspeare's Richard II., Act iii., sc. 2.
[625] Epota. Herodotus mentions the Scamander, Onochnous, Apidanus, and Echedorus.