“I will embrace at Salamis the benefit conferred by Athens upon Greece, and will magnify its great reward.” The allusion is to the fulfilment of the ancient prophecy, that “the Attic city would be saved by her wooden walls,” a phrase curiously reproduced in the modern history of England. For the details of this victory see Herodotus, _lib._ viii. Pindar, in the foregoing passage, incidentally refers to the splendid reward which he received from the Athenians, who gave him 2000 drachmas, being twice the amount of the fine inflicted on him by his Theban countrymen for celebrating the praises of the Athenians at Salamis. (Æschines, _Epist._ iv.) III. “The cannon fired for joy upon the morn, That told the nation Salamanca’s skies,” &c. The battle of Salamanca was fought on the 22nd July, 1812. The author was born on the 27th December in the same year. “Salamanca will always be referred to as the most skilful of Wellington’s battles.” (Napier, _Hist. War in the Peninsula_, book xix. chap. 7.) This splendid achievement was designated by a French officer at the time as “the beating of forty thousand men in forty minutes.” V. “Length of days, And honours of a Demigod,” &c. ὁ νικῶν δὲ λοιπὸν ἀμφὶ βίοτον ἔχει μελιτόεσσαν εὐδίαν, ἀέθλων γ’ ἕνεκεν. Pind. _Olymp._ i. “The Conqueror for the remainder of his days enjoyeth a honeyed security, the reward of his victories.” V. “The path of Cæsar blood and tears o’erran.” See Ferguson’s _Roman Republic_, book iv. chap. 1, 2, 3, 7. VII. “I late have stood upon thy battle-fields.” Sint tibi Flaminius, Thrasymenaque litora, testes. Ovid. _Fast._ vi. 765. IX., XI. For poetical allusions to the battles of Talavera and Albuera see Byron’s _Childe Harold_, Canto i., and Scott’s _Don Roderick_. XV. “To where Garumna’s stream to ocean runs.” “Pernicior unda Garumnæ,” the Garonne on which Toulouse is situated, the ‘docta Tolosa’ of Ausonius. XX. “‘Now, Don Salustian,’ thus great Arthur said-- ‘This piteous scene doth touch my heart full sore.’” Ὑψηλόφρων μοι θυμὸς αἴρεται πρόσω· Ἐπίσταται δὲ τοῖς κακοῖσί τ’ ἀσχαλᾷν, Μετρίως τε χαίρειν τοῖσιν ἐξωγκωμένοις. Eurip. _Iphig. in Aul._ 919. “My lofty mind is vehemently raised. But it knows how to pity misfortune, and moderately to enjoy prosperity.” XXII. “O’ercast with blushes that like roses seem.” And ever and anon with rosy red The bashful blood her snowy cheeks did die, And her became as polished ivorie, Which cunning craftsman’s hand hath overlaid With fair vermillion on pure lasterie. Spenser, _Fairy Queen_. XXIII. “In kisses o’er her hand his soul was cast.” Suaviolum dulci dulcius ambrosiâ. Catul. xcvi.