“The Virgilian cry, The sense of tears in mortal things.” —MATTHEW ARNOLD, _Geist’s Grave_. “Thou majestic in thy sadness at the doubtful doom of human kind.” —TENNYSON. [98] 16:4. =Pergamus.= Troy. [99] 16:12. =Xanthus.= A river near Troy. [100] 16:13. =Troilus.= Shakespeare’s _Troilus_ draws plot from Chaucer. [101] 16:19. =Pallas.= Minerva, goddess of wisdom, friend of the Greeks. [102] 16:32. =Memnon.= Leader of the Æthiopian allies of Troy. Was son of Tithonus and Aurora. [103] 16:33. =Penthesilea.= Queen of the Amazons who fought for Troy. Achilles slew both Memnon and Penthesilea. [104] 17:6. =Diana.= “Such as Diana by the sandy shore Of swift Eurotas, or on Cynthus greene, Where all the nymphs have her unwares forlore [left], Wandreth alone with bow and arrowes keene, To seeke her game.” —SPENSER, _Faerie Queene_. [105] 17:9. =Latona.= Mother of Apollo and Diana. The type of perfect mother love. [106] 18:10. =Orion.= A hunter famous in ancient myth, armed with belt and sword, translated to the heavens as a constellation, thought to bring storms. [107] 19:36. =Shone.= “When sea-born Venus guided o’er Her warrior to the Punic shore, Around that radiant head she threw In deep’ning clouds ambrosial dew: But when the Tyrian queen drew near, The light pour’d round him fresh and clear.” —LANDOR. “Not great Æneas stood in plainer day, When, the dark mantling mist dissolved away, He to the Tyrians showed his sudden face, Shining with all his goddess mother’s grace: For she herself had made his countenance bright, Breathed honor on his eyes, and her own purple light.” —DRYDEN, _Britannia Rediviva_. [108] 20:4. =Enchased.= “Like to a golden border did appeare, Framed in goldsmithes forge with cunning hand.” —SPENSER, _Faerie Queene_. [109] 21:9. =Learning.= “Who by the art of known and feeling sorrows, Are pregnant to good pity.” —SHAKESPEARE, _King Lear_. “What sorrow wast thou had’st her know, And from her own she learned to melt at others’ woe.” —GRAY, _Hymn to Adversity_. [110] 21:30. =Acanthus.= A plant now called bear’s-foot, or bear’s-breech; grows in southern Europe, Asia Minor, and India. Its leaf was a common form in embroidery and sculpture, and is well known from its use in the Corinthian capital. [111] 21:31. =Helen.= Most beautiful of women, daughter of Jupiter and Leda, was wife of Menelaus of Sparta. She was carried off by Paris as Venus’ reward to him for his decision in her favor in the question of the Golden Apple. This breach of hospitality by Paris was the cause of the Trojan war. [112] 22:1. =Cupid.= Son of Venus; god of love.