A character from Virgil’s _Æneid_ (bk. ii. lines 79–80; 195–8; 257–9),[109] frequently introduced both by Whitney and Shakespeare, is that of the traitor Sinon, who, with his false tears and lying words, obtained for the wooden horse and its armed men admission through the walls and within the city of Troy. Asia, he averred, would thus secure supremacy over Greece, and Troy find a perfect deliverance. It is from the “PICTA POESIS” of Anulus (p. 18), that Whitney (p. 141) on one occasion adopts the Emblem of treachery, the untrustworthy shield of Brasidas,— _Perfidvs familiaris_,— “The faithless friend.” [Illustration: _Aneau_, 1552.] PER _medium Brasidas clypeum traiectus ab hoſte: Quóque foret læſus ciue rogante modum. Cui fidebam (inquit) penetrabilis vmbo fefellit._ SIC CVI _ſæpe fides credita: proditor eſt._ Thus rendered in the _Choice of Emblemes_,— “While throughe his foes, did boulde BRASIDAS thruste, And thought with force, their courage to confounde: Throughe targat faire, wherein he put his truste, His manlie corpes receau’d a mortall wounde. Beinge ask’d the cause, before he yeelded ghoste: Quoth hee, my shielde, wherein I trusted moste. Euen so it happes, wee ofte our bayne doe brue, When ere wee trie, wee trust the gallante showe: When frendes suppoas’d, do prooue them selues vntrue. When SINON false, in DAMONS shape dothe goe: Then gulfes of griefe, doe swallowe vp our mirthe, And thoughtes ofte times, doe shrow’d vs in the earthe. * * * * * * But, if thou doe inioye a faithfull frende, See that with care, thou keepe him as thy life: And if perhappes he doe, that may offende, Yet waye thy frende: and shunne the cause of strife, Remembringe still, there is no greater crosse; Then of a frende, for, to sustaine the losse. Yet, if this knotte of frendship be to knitte, And SCIPIO yet, his LELIVS can not finde? Content thy selfe, till some occasion fitte, Allot thee one, according to thy minde: Then trie, and truste: so maiste thou liue in rest, But chieflie see, thou truste thy selfe the beste?” [Illustration: _Sambucus_, 1564.] And again, adopting the Emblem of John Sambucus, edition Antwerp, 1564, p. 184,[110] and the motto, _Nusquam tuta fides_,— “Trustfulness is never sure,” with the exemplification of the Elephant and the undermined tree, Whitney writes (p. 150),—