I talk indignantly against others bothering you, and do worse than all myself, I think, what with Bookbindings, Dressing-gowns, etc. (N.B. You know that the last is only in case when you are going your Rounds to St. James, etc.) Now I have a little Query to make: which, not being even so much out of your way, won't I hope trouble you. I remember Thompson telling me that, from what he had read and seen of Grecian Geography, he almost thought Clytemnestra's famous Account of the Line of Signal Fires from Troy to Mycenae to be possible (I mean you know in the Agamemnon). At least this is what _I believe_ he said: I must not assert from a not very accurate Memory anything that would compromise a Greek Professor: I am so ignorant of Geography, ancient as well as modern, I don't know exactly, or at all, the Points of the Beacons so enumerated: and Lempriere, the only Classic I have to refer to, doesn't help me in what I want. Will you turn to the passage, and tell me _what_, and _where_, are: 1. The [Greek text]-- 2. The [Greek text]-- 3. The [Greek text]. _What_, _where_, and _why_, so called? The rest I know, or can find in Dictionary, and Map. But for these-- Lempriere Is no-where; Liddell and Scott Don't help me a jot: When I'm off, Donnegan Don't help me _on again_.-- So I'm obliged to resort to old _Donne again_! Rhyme and Epigram quite worthy of the German. _To W. H. Thompson_. Fragment of a Letter written in Nov. 1862. I took down a Juvenal to look for a Passage about the Loaded Waggon rolling through the Roman Streets. {34} I couldn't find it. Do you know where it is? Not that you need answer this Question, which only comes in as if I were talking to you. I remember asking you whence AEschylus made his Agamemnon speak of Ulysses as unwilling at first to go on the Trojan Expedition. I see Paley refers it to some Poem called the Cypria quoted by Proclus. I was asking Donne the other Day as to some of the names of the Beacon-places in Clytemnestra's famous Speech: and I then said I _believed_--but only _believed_, as an inaccurate Man, not wishing to implicate others--that you, Thompson, had once told me that you thought the Chain of Fires _might_ have passed from Troy to Mycenae in the way described--_just possibly_ MIGHT, I think--I assure you I took care not to commit your Credit by my uncertain Memory, whatever it was you said was only in a casual way over a Cigar. Are you for [Greek text]? {35a} a point I don't care a straw about; so don't answer this neither. No, I didn't go to the Exhibition: which, I know, looks like Affectation: but was honest Incuriosity and Indolence. . . . On looking over Juvenal for the Lines I wanted I was amused at the prosaic Truth of one I didn't want: Intolerabilius nihil est quam femina dives. {35b} _To George Crabbe_. _Dec._ 20, 1862. MY DEAR GEORGE,