[Footnote 150: 'The groaning of the ships' tackling, the dashing together of the ships, the uproar, the crash, the rattle of the thunder, and the whistling of the ropes.'] [Footnote 151: 'Give me your foot, that with the brown waters I may wash away the brown dust with those hands with which I have often rubbed gently the feet of Ulysses, and with my hands' softness soothe your weariness.'] [Footnote 152: 'It represented the deeds of Roman kings and generals: hence it is evident that at least it wanted the unity of time of the Greek tragedy; that it was a history like Shakspeare's.'--Niebuhr's Roman History, vol. i. note 1150.] [Footnote 153: Brutus, 28.] [Footnote 154: 'Decimus quidem Brutus, summus ille vir et imperator, Accii, amicissimi sui, carminibus templorum ac monumentorum aditus exornavit suorum.'--Chap. 11.] [Footnote 155: Hist. Nat. xxxiv. 10: 'Notatum ab auctoribus, et L. Accium poetam in Came narum aede maxima forma statuam sibi posuisse, cum brevis admodum fuisset.'] [Footnote 156: Pro Plancio 24.] [Footnote 157: De Orat. iii. 58.] [Footnote 158: 'Tereus, in his wild mood and savage spirit, gazed upon her, maddened with burning passion, quite desperate; in his madness, he resolves a cursed deed.'] [Footnote 159: 'Withdraw him within: for the lofty dignity of his aspect has moved my mind to compassion.'] [Footnote 160: 'That man indeed we pity whose nobleness gives distinction to his misery.'] [Footnote 161: 'Dost thou not know, that whatever rank fortune has assigned to a man, no meanness of station ever weakens a fine nature?'] [Footnote 162: 'This was the part of a man, to bear adversity easily.'] [Footnote 163: 'Though fortune could strip me of kingdom and wealth, it cannot strip me of my virtue.'] [Footnote 164: 'No nature is so strong, no breast so savage, which is not shaken by words, does not melt at misfortune.'] [Footnote 165: 'I trust not those augurs, who enrich the ears of others with their words, that they may enrich their own houses with gold.' There is of course a pun on the _auris_ and _auro_.] [Footnote 166: 'O king, what men usually do in life, what they think about, care about, see,--their pursuits and occupations, when awake,--if these occur to any one in sleep, it is not wonderful.'] [Footnote 167: 'So huge a mass is approaching--sounding from the deep with a mighty rushing noise; it rolls the waves before it, forces through the eddies, plunges forward, throws up and dashes back the sea.'--Quoted in Cic. De Nat. Deor. ii. 35.] [Footnote 168: 'Lying beneath the pole by the seven stars, whence the blustering roar of the north-wind drives before it the chill snows.'] [Footnote 169: 'By chance before the dawn, harbinger of burning rays, when the husbandmen bring forth the oxen from their rest into the fields, that they may break the red, dew-sprinkled soil with the plough, and turn up the clods from the soft soil.']