"Cuncta ferit dum cuncta timet; desævit in omnes, Ut se posse putent; nec bellua tetrior ulla Quam servi rabies in libera terga furentes Agnoscit gemitus, et pœnæ parcere nescit Quam subiit, dominique memor quem verberat odit." Claudian in Eutrop. i. 108. ] [Footnote 10: "Justum et tenacem propositi virum. . . . . . . Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida."--Hor. III. Od. iii. 1. ] [Footnote 11: ῥίψωμίν ἄγκυραν.] [Footnote 12: "Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought."--Shakespeare.] [Footnote 13: Plutarch thus describes the punishment of poisoners among the Persians.--"Poisoners are put to death, by the Persian laws, in the following manner. The head of the criminal is laid upon a flat stone, the executioner with another stone beats and pounds his head, until both head and face are entirely crushed."] [Footnote 14: Παντάρζην φορέουσα πυρὸς μὴ τάρζει ἐρώην 'Ρηῑδιώς μόιραις καὶ τ'αδόκητα πέλει. ] [Footnote 15: Αἰθιόπον εἰς γᾶιαν ἀφίξεαι ἄμμιγα κόυρη Δεσμών Άρτακέων αὔριον ἐκπροφυγών. ] [Footnote 16: Herodotus gives the same account of the swiftness of this race, and mentions their subsisting upon snakes, lizards, and other reptiles, adding, that their language resembles the shrill cry of a bat; they are the modern Tibboos.--See Herod. iv. 183, Blakesley's Edit.] [Footnote 17: See Xen. Cyrop. vii. 5. 60.] BOOK IX. Syene was now closely blockaded, and on every side, as with a net, invested by the Ethiopian army. Oroondates, as soon as he was informed of the design and sudden approach of the enemy (who, having passed the cataracts, were pressing towards the place), using the utmost diligence and expedition, had contrived to throw himself into the city before their arrival; and after planting his engines and artillery upon the walls, awaited the attack, and made every preparation for a vigorous defence. Hydaspes, the king of Ethiopia, though he was deceived in the hope of surprising the town before they had any notice of his approach, invested it, however, on all sides, and surrounding it with a line of circumvallation, made for the present no attack, but sat down quietly before it, filling and exhausting the plains of Syene with myriads of men, beasts, and cattle. Here the party which has been mentioned brought their captives into his presence.