"Rivers, whose depth no sharp beholder sees,
Drunk at an army's dinner to the lees!" Dryden.
[626] Sostratus. Of this poet nothing is known.—Madidis, probably in the same sense as in Sat. xv., 47, "Facilis victoria de madidis." Sil., xii., 18, "Madefacta mero."
[627] Ennosigæum. ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνόθειν τὴν γαῖαν. Cf. Hom., Il., vii., 455. Æolis is an allusion to Virgil, Æn., i., 51, "Vinclis ac carcere frænat," etc.
[628] Stigmate. Herod., vii., 35.
"That shackles o'er th' earth-shaking Neptune threw,
And thought it lenient not to brand him too." Gifford.
[629] Servire Deorum. As Apollo served Admetus; Neptune, Laomedon, etc.
"Ye gods! obeyed ye such a fool as this?" Hodgson.
[630] Tardâ. Perhaps alluding to Her., viii., 118.
"A single skiff to speed his flight remains,
Th' encumbered oar scarce leaves the dreaded coast
Through purple billows and a floating host!" Johnson.
[631] Tabraca, on the coast of Tunis, now Tabarca.