Quando erit ut lecto mecum bene junctus in uno Militiae referas splendida facta tuae. When will the time be that you will share the couch, and lovingly at my side recount the glorious deeds of your warfare? _Be taught, O faithful Consort, to control Rebellious passion: for the Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul_, etc. Cf. Euripides, _Iphigeneia in Aulide_, 547: γαλανείᾳ χρησάμενοι μαινομένων οἴστρων. Stilling to calmness the frenzied passions of love. And again: εἴη δέ μοι μετρία μὲν χάρις πόθοι δ' ὅσιοι. Mine be 'moderate transports' and holy yearnings. ... _Did not Hercules by force._ This refers to the struggle between Hercules and Θάνατος. _Medea's spells dispersed the weight of years._ The story is found in Ovid, _Metamorphoses_, vii. 159-293. _Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place._ This is a perfect rendering of the _tone_ of the Sixth _Æneid_. _Spake of heroic arts in graver mood Revived, with finer harmony pursued._ Quae gratia currum Armorumque fuit vivis, quae cura nitentes Pascere equos, eadem sequitur tellure repostos. _Æneid_ vi. 653. The charm of chariot and armour that they had in life, and the same care to pasture their glossy steeds, follow them deep buried under earth. _An ampler ether, a diviner air._ Largior hic campos aether et lumine vestit Purpureo, solemque suum, sua sidera norunt. Here an 'ampler ether' spreads around the plains, and clothes them in purple light, and they recognise a sun of their own, their own constellations.--_Æneid_ vi. 640. _Yet bitter, oft-times bitter, was the pang._ Cf. Agamemnon's words, _Iphigeneia in Aulide_, 451-468. _My new-planned cities, and unfinished towers._ Cf. Homer, _Iliad_, ii. 700. τοῦ δὲ καὶ ἀμφιδρυφὴς ἄλοχος Φυλάκῃ ἐλέλειπτο καὶ δόμος ἡμιτελής. But his wife too had been left at Phylace, her cheeks all marred with grief, and his palace half-finished. _In soul I swept the indignity away._ καὶ γὰρ οὐδέ τοί τι λίαν ἐμὲ φιλοψυχεῖν χρεών. For neither of a surety ought I to cling to life too fondly.--_Iphigeneia in Aulide_, 1385. It is from the character of Iphigeneia that Wordsworth derives these traits. _By the just Gods whom no weak pity moved._ We think of Virgil's tender line in the similar passage about Orpheus and Eurydice. _Georg._ iv. 488. Quum subita incautum dementia cepit amantem, _Ignoscenda quidem, scirent si ignoscere Manes._ Pardonable indeed, were pardon known in the world of death. _Was doomed to wear out her appointed time._ Virg. _Æn._ vi. 445-- His Phaedram Procrimque locis maestamque Eriphylen Crudelis nati monstrantem volnera cernit, Evadnenque et Pasiphaën: _His Laodamia It comes._