"Like a dead member from the body rent,
Maim'd and unuseful to the government." Dryden.
"No man's confederate, here alone I stand,
Like the maim'd owner of a palsied hand." Badham.
"Lopp'd from the trunk, a dead, unuseful hand." Hodgson.
[115] Isa., lvii., 20.
[116] Opaci, Lubin. interprets as equivalent to turbulenti, "turbid with gold." On this Grangæus remarks, "Apage Germani haud germanam interpretationem! opaci enim est umbris arborum obscuri." Cf. Mart., i., Ep. 50, "Æstus serenos aureo franges Tago obscurus umbris arborum."
"Grasp thou no boon with sadness on thy brow,
Spurn the base bribe that binds a guilty vow." Badham.
"Shame for Rome that harbors such a crew."
[119] The Roman hind, once so renowned for rough and manly virtues, now wears the costume of effeminate Greeks: or all these Greek terms, used to show the poet's supreme contempt, may refer to the games: the Trechedipna, not the thin supper-robe, but the same as the Endromis. The Ceroma, an ointment made of oil, wax, and clay, with which they bedaubed themselves.