[516.] Rustum! Why did this word so affect Sohrab? Note the author's skill in working up to this climax in the narrative.
[527-539.] Then with a bitter smile, etc. Compare these words of the victor, Rustum, with the words of Sohrab, ll. 427-447, when the advantage was with him.
[536.] glad. Make happy.
"That which gladded all the warrior train."
—DRYDEN.
[538.] Dearer to the red jackals, etc. [p.162] Cf. I. Sam. xvii. 44: "Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field." Careful investigation will show the poem to abound with Biblical as well as classical parallelisms.
[556-575.] As when some hunter, etc. One of the truly great similes in the English language.
[563.] sole. Alone, solitary. From the Latin solus.
[570.] glass. Reflect as in a mirror.
[596.] bruited up. Noised abroad.
[613.] the style. The name or title.