[36] Echard has here mistaken the author’s sense. He ought to have said, “o’ my conscience, this night is twice as long as that was.”

[37]

Hor. Donec gratus eram tibi,

Nec quisquam potior brachia candidæ

Cervici juvenis dabat;

Persarum vigui rege beatior.

Lyd. Donec non aliam magis

Arsisti, neque erat Lydia post Chloen;

Multi Lydia nominis

Romanâ vigui clarior Iliâ.