Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookende._ "How are the mighty changed to dust! how small The urn that holds what once was Hannibal!" Hodgson. [613] _Altos_; others read _alios_; referring to the elephants of _Africa_ as well as _Asia_. "Elephantos fert Africa, ferunt Æthiopes et Troglodytæ: sed maximos India." Plin., viii., 11. [614] _Aceto._ Vid. Liv., xxi., 37. Polybius omits the story as fabulous. There appears, now, no reason to doubt the fact. [615] Actum. "Nil actum referens si quid superesset agendum." "Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain; 'Think nothing gain'd,' he cries, 'till naught remain; On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the Polar sky.'" Johnson. [616] _Facies._ "Oh! for some master-hand, the lines to trace!" Gifford. [617] _Luscum._ Hannibal lost one eye, while crossing the marshes, in making his way to Etruria: "quia medendi nec locus nec tempus erat altero oculo capitur;" he rode, Livy tells us, on his sole surviving elephant, xxii., 2. [618] _Bithyno._ When accused by the Romans at Carthage, Hannibal fled to Antiochus, king of Syria, and thence to the court of Prusias, king of Bithynia, for whom he carried on successfully the war against Eumenes. But when Flaminius was sent to demand his surrender, he destroyed himself with poison, which he always carried in a ring. [619] _Sanguinis._ Forty-five thousand dead were left on the field of Cannæ, with the Consul Æmilius Paulus, eighty senators, and very many others of high rank. [620] _Declamatio._ Cf. vii., 167, "Sexta quâque die miserum dirus caput Hannibal implet." So I. 150, and i., 15. "Go, climb the rugged Alps, ambitious fool! To please the boys, and be a theme at school." Dryden. [621] _Unus._ "Heu me miserum! quod ne uno quidem adhuc potitus sum!" is the exclamation put into Alexander's mouth by Val. Max., viii., 14. [622] _Gyaris._ Cf. i., 73; vi., 563. [623] _Figulis._ Cf. Herod., i., 78. Ov., Met., iv., 27, "Ubi dicitur altam Coctilibus muris cinxisse Semiramis urbem." [624] _Sarcophago._ A stone was found at Assos, near Troy, which was said to possess the property of consuming the flesh of bodies inclosed in it within the space of forty days, hence called σαρκοφάγος. Plin., ii., 96; xxxvi., 17. Cf. Henry's speech to Hotspur's body: "Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound: But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough." So Hall: "Fond fool! six feet shall serve for all thy store, And he that cares for most shall find no more." And Shirley: "How little room do we take up in death, That, living, knew no bounds!" And Webster's Duchess of Malfy: "Much you had of land and rent; Your length in clays's now competent." So K. Henry VI.: "And of all my lands Is nothing left me but my body's length." And Dryden's Antony: "The place thou pressest on thy mother Earth Is all thy empire now." Cf. Æsch., S. Theb., 731. Soph., Œd. Col., 789. Shakspeare's Richard II., Act iii., sc. 2. [625] _Epota._ Herodotus mentions the Scamander, Onochnous, Apidanus, and Echedorus. "Rivers, whose depth no sharp beholder sees, Drunk at an army's dinner to the lees!" Dryden. [626] _Sostratus._ Of this poet nothing is known.--_Madidis_, probably in the same sense as in Sat. xv., 47, "Facilis victoria de madidis." Sil., xii., 18, "Madefacta mero." [627] _Ennosigæum._ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνόθειν τὴν γαῖαν. Cf. Hom., Il., vii., 455. _Æolis_ is an allusion to Virgil, Æn., i., 51, "Vinclis ac carcere frænat," etc. [628] _Stigmate._ Herod., vii., 35. "That shackles o'er th' earth-shaking Neptune threw, And thought it lenient not to brand him too." Gifford. [629] _Servire Deorum._ As Apollo served Admetus; Neptune, Laomedon, etc. "Ye gods! obeyed ye such a fool as this?" Hodgson. [630] _Tardâ._ Perhaps alluding to Her., viii., 118. "A single skiff to speed his flight remains, Th' encumbered oar scarce leaves the dreaded coast Through purple billows and a floating host!" Johnson. [631] _Tabraca_, on the coast of Tunis, now Tabarca. [632] _Simia._ So Ennius, in Cic., Nat. De., i., 35, "Simia, quam similis turpissima bestia nobis!" "A stick-fallen cheek! that hangs below the jaw, Such wrinkles as a skillful hand would draw For an old grandam ape, when, with a grace, She sits at squat, and scrubs her leathern face." Dryden. [633] _Cum voce trementia membra._ Compare Hamlet's speech to Polonius, and As you like it, Act ii., 7: "His big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in its sound." "The self-same palsy both in limbs and tongue." Dryden. [634] _Palato._ Compare Barzillai's speech to David, 2 Sam., xix., 35, "I am this day fourscore years old; and can I discern between good or evil? can thy servant taste what I eat and what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women?" [635] _Vini._ "Now pall the tasteless meats, and joyless wines, And Luxury with sighs her slave resigns." Johnson. [636] _Viribus._ Shakspeare, King Henry IV., Part ii., Act ii., sc. 4, "Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?" [637] _Auratâ._ Cic. ad Heren., iv., 47, "Uti citharædus cum prodierit optimè vestitus, pallâ _inauratâ_ indutus, cum chlamyde purpureâ coloribus variis intextâ, cum coronâ aureâ, magnis _fulgentibus_ gemmis illuminatâ." Horace, A. P., 215, "Luxuriem addidi arti Tibicen, traxitque vagus per pulpita vestem." [638] _Nuntiet horas._ Slaves were employed to watch the dials in the houses of those who had them, and report the hour: those who had no dial sent to the Forum. Cf. Mart., viii., 67. Suet., Domit., xvi., "Sexta nuntiata est." [639] _Gelido._ Virg., Æn., v., 395, "Sed enim _gelidus_ tardante senectâ _Sanguis_ hebet, _frigentque_ effœtæ in corpora vires." [640] _Themison_ of Laodicea in Syria, pupil of Asclepiades, was an eminent physician of the time of Pompey the Great, and is said to have been the founder of the "Methodic" school, as opposed to the "Empiric." Vid. Cels., Præf. Plin., N. H., xxix., 15. Others say he lived in Augustus' time, and Hodgson thinks he may have lived even to Juvenal's days. Cicero (de Orat., i., 14) mentions an Asclepiades; and the names of at least _three_ others are mentioned in later times. [641] _Quo tondente._ Cf. i., 35. [642] _Hiat._ Cf. Lucian, Tim., ἐμὲ περιμένουσι κεχηνότες ὥσπερ τὴν χελιδόνα προσπετομένην τετριγότες οἰ νεοσσοί. P. 72, E., ed. Bened. [643] _Jejuna_, from Hom., Il., ix., 323, ὡς δ' ὄρνις ἀπτῆσι νεοσσοῖσι προφέρῃσι μάστακ', ἐπεί κε λάβῃσι, κακῶς δέ τέ οἱ πέλει αὐτῇ. [644] _Phialen._ "Forgets the children he begot and bred, And makes a strumpet heiress in their stead." Gifford. [645] _ |