[120] Amydon in Pœonia, Tralles in Lydia, Alabanda in Caria.
"Work themselves inward, and their patrons out." Dryden.
"Deep in their patron's heart, and fix'd as fate,
The future lords of all his vast estate." Hodgson.
"Torrents of words that might Isæus drown." Badham.
[123] Aliptes, one who anoints (ἀλείφει), and therefore trains, athletes.
[124] So Johnson.
"All sciences the hungry Monsieur knows,
And bid him go to hell—to hell he goes!"
[125] Some think there is an allusion here to a man who attempted to repeat Icarus' experiment before Nero. Vid. Suet., Nero, 13.