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--"Paradise Lost," iv. 986.
140 The Abantes seem to have been of Thracian origin.
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41 I may, once for all, remark that Homer is most anatomically correct
as to the parts of the body in which a wound would be immediately
mortal.
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42 --Ænus, a fountain almost proverbial for its coldness.
43 Compare Tasso, Gier. Lib., xx. 7:
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"Nuovo favor del cielo in lui niluce
E 'l fa grande, et angusto oltre il costume.
Gl' empie d' honor la faccia, e vi riduce
Di giovinezza il bel purpureo lume."
144 "Or deluges, descending on the plains,
Sweep o'er the yellow year, destroy the pains
Of lab'ring oxen, and the peasant's gains;
Uproot the forest oaks, and bear away
Flocks, folds, and trees, an undistinguish'd prey."
Dryden's Virgil ii. 408.
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45 --From mortal mists.
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