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64 --Oh impotent, &c. "In battle, quarter seems never to have been
given, except with a view to the ransom of the prisoner. Agamemnon
reproaches Menelaus with unmanly softness, when he is on the point
of sparing a fallen enemy, and himself puts the suppliant to the
sword."--Thirlwall, vol. i. p. 181
165 "The ruthless steel, impatient of delay,
Forbade the sire to linger out the day.
It struck the bending father to the earth,
And cropt the wailing infant at the birth.
Can innocents the rage of parties know,
And they who ne'er offended find a foe?"
Rowe's Lucan, bk. ii.
166 "Meantime the Trojan dames, oppress'd with woe,
To Pallas' fane in long procession go,
In hopes to reconcile their heav'nly foe:
They weep; they beat their breasts; they rend their hair,
And rich embroider'd vests for presents bear."
Dryden's Virgil, i. 670
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67 The manner in which this episode is introduced, is well illustrated
by the following remarks of Mure, vol. i. p.298: "The poet's method
of introducing his episode, also, illustrates in a curious manner
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