[623] _Figulis._ Cf. Herod., i., 78. Ov., Met., iv., 27, "Ubi dicitur altam Coctilibus muris cinxisse Semiramis urbem." [624] _Sarcophago._ A stone was found at Assos, near Troy, which was said to possess the property of consuming the flesh of bodies inclosed in it within the space of forty days, hence called σαρκοφάγος. Plin., ii., 96; xxxvi., 17. Cf. Henry's speech to Hotspur's body: "Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound: But now, two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough." So Hall: "Fond fool! six feet shall serve for all thy store, And he that cares for most shall find no more." And Shirley: "How little room do we take up in death, That, living, knew no bounds!" And Webster's Duchess of Malfy: "Much you had of land and rent; Your length in clays's now competent." So K. Henry VI.: "And of all my lands Is nothing left me but my body's length." And Dryden's Antony: "The place thou pressest on thy mother Earth Is all thy empire now." Cf. Æsch., S. Theb., 731. Soph., Œd. Col., 789. Shakspeare's Richard II., Act iii., sc. 2. [625] _Epota._ Herodotus mentions the Scamander, Onochnous, Apidanus, and Echedorus. "Rivers, whose depth no sharp beholder sees, Drunk at an army's dinner to the lees!" Dryden. [626] _Sostratus._ Of this poet nothing is known.--_Madidis_, probably in the same sense as in Sat. xv., 47, "Facilis victoria de madidis." Sil., xii., 18, "Madefacta mero." [627] _Ennosigæum._ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνόθειν τὴν γαῖαν. Cf. Hom., Il., vii., 455. _Æolis_ is an allusion to Virgil, Æn., i., 51, "Vinclis ac carcere frænat," etc. [628] _Stigmate._ Herod., vii., 35. "That shackles o'er th' earth-shaking Neptune threw, And thought it lenient not to brand him too." Gifford. [629] _Servire Deorum._ As Apollo served Admetus; Neptune, Laomedon, etc. "Ye gods! obeyed ye such a fool as this?" Hodgson. [630] _Tardâ._ Perhaps alluding to Her., viii., 118. "A single skiff to speed his flight remains, Th' encumbered oar scarce leaves the dreaded coast Through purple billows and a floating host!" Johnson. [631] _Tabraca_, on the coast of Tunis, now Tabarca. [632] _Simia._ So Ennius, in Cic., Nat. De., i., 35, "Simia, quam similis turpissima bestia nobis!" "A stick-fallen cheek! that hangs below the jaw, Such wrinkles as a skillful hand would draw For an old grandam ape, when, with a grace, She sits at squat, and scrubs her leathern face." Dryden. [633] _Cum voce trementia membra._ Compare Hamlet's speech to Polonius, and As you like it, Act ii., 7: "His big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in its sound." "The self-same palsy both in limbs and tongue." Dryden.