On the other side Adam, soon as he heard
The fatal trespass done by Eve, amaz'd,
Astonied stood, and blank.
"Paradise Lost," ix. 888.
Upright men shall be astonied at this.—Job, xvii. 8.
([St. LIV.]) Rudeger is an Austrian Axylus.—"Iliad," vi. 14.
ἀφνειὸς βιότοιο, φίλος δ'ἦν ἀνθρώποισιν,
πάντας γὰρ φιλέεσκεν, ὁδῷ ἐπὶ οἰκία ναίων.
The German poem is here certainly not inferior to the Greek. Similes are as rare in the Nibelungenlied as they are abundant in the Iliad, but it would be difficult to find one more just and elegant than this.
([St. LVII.]) Lachmann's Fifteenth Lay begins here; it concludes with St. XIV, Twenty-eighth Adventure.
TWENTY-SEVENTH ADVENTURE
([St. XXIV.]) I quote some passages from Ellis's "Specimens" on the custom of the two sexes eating apart: