lion, with whose sighte they flie and he devours. So they around Ulysses prest." --Chapman. 224 --_Simois, railing,_ &c. "In those bloody fields Where Simois rolls the bodies and the shields Of heroes." --Dryden's Virgil, i. 142. 225 "Where yon disorder'd heap of ruin lies, Stones rent from stones,--where clouds of dust arise,-- Amid that smother, Neptune holds his place, Below the wall's foundation drives his mace, And heaves the building from the solid base." Dryden's Virgil, ii. 825. 226 --_Why boast we._ "Wherefore do I assume These royalties and not refuse to reign, Refusing to accept as great a share Of hazard as of honour, due alike to him Who reigns, and so much to him due Of hazard more, as he above the rest High honour'd sits." --"Paradise Lost," ii. 450. 227 --_Each equal weight._ "Long time in even scale The battle hung." --"Paradise Lost," vi. 245. 228 "He on his impious foes right onward drove, _Gloomy as night._" --"Paradise Lost," vi. 831 229 --_Renown'd for justice and for length of days,_ Arrian. de Exp. Alex. iv. p. 239, also speaks of the independence of these people, which he regards as the result of their poverty and uprightness. Some authors have regarded the phrase "Hippomolgian," _i.e._ "milking their mares," as an epithet applicable to numerous tribes, since the oldest of the Samatian nomads made their mares' milk one of their chief articles of diet. The epithet abion or abion, in this passage, has occasion