Lewesdon Hill, with other poems

by William Crowe

There is a singular similarity in the length of the words here, and in the following passage of the Choephori, where Electra speaks of the murder of her father; intending, perhaps, to express the multitude of wounds by the polysyllabic term;

πολυπλαγκτα δ’ ην ιδειν

Επασσυτεροτριβη τα χερος ορεγματα. 423.

POEMS.

INSCRIBED BENEATH THE PICTURE OF
AN ASS.

Meek animal, whose simple mien