[34] Each soldier carried a stake, to help form a palisade in front of the camp.
[35] Insania—from in, a particle of negative force in composition, and sanus, healthy, sound.
[36] The man who first received this surname was L. Calpurnius Piso, who was consul, 133 b.c., in the Servile War.
[37] The Greek is,
Ἀλλά μοι οἰδάνεται κραδίη χόλῳ ὅπποτ’ ἐκείνου
Μνήσομαι ὅς μ’ ἀσύφηλον ἐν Ἀργείοισιν ἔρεξεν.—Il. ix. 642.
I have given Pope’s translation in the text.
[38] This is from the Theseus:
Ἐγὼ δὲ τοῦτο παρὰ σοφοῦ τινος μαθὼν
εὶς φροντίδας νοῦν συμφοράς τ’ ἐβαλλόμην