[16] _δεόντως ἠρμοσμένη πρὸς ἔνια τῶν πραγμάτων μέγά τι χρῆμα φαίνεται καὶ θαυμάσιον_. [17] Bell. Gall., vii. 72. [18] Fairfax’s Tasso, xviii. 43–5. [19] William of Tyre. [20] La Réole, a town in Gascony. [21] Boiled leather, “cuir boulu.” [22] Pavisses were large shields or defences made of plank, &c., which archers and others bore before them, or fixed in the earth, that they might shoot, mine, &c., in partial cover from the shot of the garrison. [23] Lord Berners’ Froissart, vol. i. cap. 109. [24] One of these old guns, of remarkable size, made of bars of hammered iron hooped together, is to be seen in Edinburgh Castle, and is called Mons Meg. [25] See the medal at the head of this chapter. [26] Bentivoglio, Hist. of Wars in Flanders, translated by Henry, Earl of Monmouth, 1698. [27] Lotichius, Rerum Germanicarum, lib. xxxvii. p. 1. [28] Harte’s Life of Gustavus Adolphus. [29] Legend of Montrose, chap. ii. [30] Harte’s Life of Gustavus Adolphus. [31] Venit summa dies, et inevitable fatum, —— —— fuit Ilium, et ingens Gloria _Parthenopes_. Parthenopes, substituted by the quoter for the original word Teucrorum, has the same meaning as Magdeburg, the maiden city. [32] Southey, Hist. Peninsular War, chap. ix. [33] Napier’s History of the Peninsular War, book v. chap. 2. [34] Attempts made by the French to force their way into the centre of the city from January 29th to February 2d. [35] Napier, Hist. of Peninsular War, book v. chap. 3. [36] _Προξένοι_. The want of public houses of entertainment for travellers was necessarily supplied by private hospitality. He whose fortune it was to entertain to–day, of course expected to be entertained in return when he visited the country of his guest; and thus were formed hereditary connexions of hospitality, held no less sacred than the ties of blood. By a natural extension of the practice, cities formed similar connexions with foreign citizens, who received their ambassadors, and advocated as far as in them lay both the public interests of the community, and the private interests of those of its citizens who required such help. These men were named Proxeni; the bond of mutual obligation was publicly recorded, and entitled them to receive as guests the same hospitality and protection which they afforded as hosts. Etheloproxeni, below translated voluntary hosts, assumed the same duties, but voluntarily; without the connexion being publicly acknowledged, and consequently without being entitled to that public return which the Proxenus claimed as his right.