’Twas then I bare
Achilles’ arms, which now I strive to wear.
Also, in Horace,
———————“laborat
Lympha fugax trepidare.”
Od., B. II. O. 3. L. 11.
The rushing water strives
To force a swifter passage.
And that, doubtless, is its meaning, when joined to dolore. What Mysis says, moreover, to Lesbia the midwife, in the first scene of the third act, is sufficient to justify this interpretation.