"Next to the raven's age, the Pylian king
Was longest-lived of any two-legged thing." Dryden.
[648] Dextra. This the Greeks express by ἀναπεμπάζεσθαι. They counted on the left hand as far as a hundred, then on the right up to two hundred, and then again on the left for the third hundred. Holyday has a most elaborate explanation of the method.
[649] Antilochi. Cf. Hor., II., Od. ix., 14.
[650] Natantem. Cf. Hom., Od., v., 388, 399.
"So Peleus sigh'd to join his hero lost—
Laertes his on boundless billows toss'd." Hodgson.
[651] Polyxena, from Eurip., Hec., 556, λαβοῦσα πέπλους ἐξ ἄκρας ἐπωμίδος ἔῤῥηξε.
[652] Miles tremulus. Virg., Æn., ii., 509, "Arma diu senior desueta trementibus ævo circumdat," etc.
"A soldier half, and half a sacrifice." Dryden.
[653] Bos. Virg., Æn., v., 481, "Sternitur, exanimisque tremens procumbit humi bos."
[654] Fastiditus.