----"Fie--fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body." Troilus and Cressida. ] [Footnote 14: Charicles.] [Footnote 15: Hδε επίτραγῶδει.] [Footnote 16: πολιός--hoary, venerable. See uses of the word in Scott and Liddell's Lexicon.] [Footnote 17: "To hear and to obey had been from birth The law of all around her; to fulfil All phantasies which yielded joy or mirth Had been her slaves' chief pleasure, as her will." Don Juan, v. 102. ] [Footnote 18: Among the Persians it was held a great mark of honour to send dishes from their tables to those whom they favoured. See Xenophon, Cyro. Book VIII. 2, 3. "Οσα δὲ πάρατεθείη, ταῦτα πάντα πλὴν οἶς αὑτὸς καὶ οἰ σύνδειπνοἰ χρήσαιντο, διεδίδoυ oἷς ἀεὶ βούλοιτο τῶν φίλων μνήμην ἐνδείκνυσθαι ἥ φιλοφροσύνην." The reader will of course remember an instance of the like custom in Scripture, Gen. xliii. 34.] [Footnote 19: "He stood like Atlas with a world of words About his ears, and the knees would not bend; The blood of all his line's Castilian lords Boil'd in his veins and rather than descend To stain his pedigree a thousand swords A thousand time of him had made an end." Don Juan, v. 104. ] [Footnote 20: ἃρπαγμα; ἓρμαιον--a windfall; a godsend.] [Footnote 21: "A tigress robb'd of young, a lioness, Or any interesting beast of prey, Are similes at hand for the distress Of ladies who cannot have their own way." Don Juan, c. v. 132. ] [Footnote 22: Εὑρετὶς ἅρα ἐστὶ λογισμῶν ἡ ἀνάγκη.] [Footnote 23: Μνηστὴν--νύμφην--γαμετήν.] [Footnote 24: An illustration of this nicety in waiting occurs in Xen. Cyrop., book i. 3, where Cyrus amuses the company by acting as cupbearer to his grandfather:--Όι τῶν βασιλἐων οἰνοχόοι, κομψῶς τε οἰνοχοοῦσι, καὶ καθαρίως ἑγχἐουσι, καὶ διδόασι τοῖς τρισὶ δακτύλοις οχοῦντες τἡν φιάλήν.] [Footnote 25: κατευνάσαι τὴν δέσποιναν τὸ μεσημβρινὸν ἐπειγομένη.] [Footnote 26: ... "opulent Egyptian Thebes, ... the city with a hundred gates, Whence twenty thousand chariots rush to war." Hom. Il. ix. 381.--Cowper's Tr. ] BOOK VIII. The king of Ethiopia had deceived Oroondates by a stratagem, and made himself master of one of the objects of the war--the city of Philœ, always ready to fall a prey to the first invader--and, by so doing, had reduced him to great straits, and to a necessity of using sudden and hurried efforts for its recovery.