“Lynceus saw. For his sight was of all men’s the sharpest.” See also Theocritus. (Idyl. 27.) “Lynceo perspicacior” became an adage.
——Prolesque Aphareïa Lynceus
Et velox Idas.
Ovid. Met. viii. 304.
XL. “‘Lay down your arms!’ he shouted to the host.”
This adventure actually occurred to the gallant Colborne. “Accompanied by only one of his staff and half-a-dozen riflemen, he crossed their march unexpectedly, and with great presence of mind and intrepidity ordered them (three hundred men) to lay down their arms, an order which they thinking themselves entirely cut off obeyed.” (Napier, Hist. book xxii. chap. 4.)
XLV. “And vultures strip the bones which Heaven will clothe at
last!”
——οἱ δ’ ἐπὶ γαίῃ
Κείατο, γύπεσσιν πολὺ φίλτεροι ἢ ἀλόχοισιν.
Hom. Il. xi. 161.