[Footnote 17: Οὔτως ὠγύγιος. See the description and bearing of Dares.--Virg. Æn. v. 368, 385.] [Footnote 18: Τῶν παρ' αὐτοῖς ἀραχνιών--literally, of spiders, see Tatius, B. iii.] [Footnote 19: In the original it is "ant-gold" χρυσόν μυρμηκιαν, turned up by the "myrmex," an animal between a dog and fox in size, supposed to be the ant-eater. See note vol. i. p. 378, of Blakesley's Herodotus. William Lisle, the poet, thus improves upon the "ant-gold:"-- "A yoke of gryphons chain'd with that fine gold Which emmots, nigh as big as Norfolke sheepe, At sand-hill side are said to gath'r and keepe." The reader will of course remember Milton's allusion to the _gryphons_. Paradise Lost, B. ii. 945.] [Footnote 20: αυτοσχεδίως κατηγορηθέν.] [Footnote 21: This animal was among the number of those, in the destruction of which the Emperor Commodus exhibited his skill in the arena.--See Gibbon, i. 153, (_note_).] [Footnote 22: Suetonius mentions an exploit similar to this of Theagenes, and performed by a Thessalian, as he was (Claud. cap. 21). "Præterea _Thessalos_ equites qui feros tauros per spatia circi agunt, insiliuntque defessos, et ad terram cornibus detrahunt." The above exploit was called ταυροκαθαίρια. It is represented in one of the Arundel marbles.] [Footnote 23: Τοῖς συνετοῖς ἀσύνετα φθέγγομαι.] [Footnote 24: ... "caput altum in prælia tollit, Ostenditque humeros latos, alternaque jactat, Brachia protendens, et verberat ictibus auras." Virg. Æn. v. 375. ] [Footnote 25: "Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis, Qui feros cultus hominum recentum Voce formasti catus, et _decoræ_." _More palestræ._--Hor. I. Od. X. 1-4. ] [Footnote 26: A wood-cut, in some degree illustrative of this description, will be found at p. 708 of Greek and Roman Antiquities, under the article "Pancratium."] [Footnote 27: By Hydaspes.] [Footnote 28: By Charicles.] [Footnote 29: "Time and tide had thus their sway, Yielding, like an April day, Smiling noon for sullen morrow, Years of joy for hours of sorrow."--Scott. ] [Footnote 30: Literally, the torch of the drama, Λαμπάδων δράματος. "φαίνετε τοίνυν υμεῖς τούτῳ λαμπάδας ἱερὰς χάμα προπέμπετε τοῖσιν τούτου τοῦτον μέλεσιν καὶ μολπᾶσιν κελαδοῦντες."--Aristoph. Bat. 1493. See similar allusions in the Eumenides of Æschylus, 959, 979. (Müller's Edit.)] [Footnote 31: See Book II.] THE END. THE LOVES OF DAPHNIS AND CHLOE, A PASTORAL NOVEL, BY LONGUS. MOTTO. Ah! what a life were this! how sweet, how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroidered canopy To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery? Oh yes it doth; a thousand-fold it doth. Shakspeare PREFACE.