[652] _Miles tremulus._ Virg., Æn., ii., 509, "Arma diu senior desueta trementibus ævo circumdat," etc. "A soldier half, and half a sacrifice." Dryden. [653] _Bos._ Virg., Æn., v., 481, "Sternitur, exanimisque tremens procumbit humi bos." [654] _Fastiditus._ "Disdain'd its labors, and forgotten now All its old service at the thankless plow." Hodgson. [655] _Canino._ See the close of Eurip., Hecuba. The Greeks fabled that Hecuba was metamorphosed into a bitch, from her constant railing at them. Hence κυνὸς σῆμα. Cf. Plaut., Menœchm., v. i. [656] _Crœsus._ Cf. Herod., i., 32. [657] _Spatia_, a metaphor from the "course." So Virgil has metæ ævi, metæ mortis. [658] _Minturnarum_, a town of the Aurunci near the mouth of the Liris, now Garigliano. In the marshes in the neighborhood Marius concealed himself from the cavalry of Sylla. [659] _Animam._ "Had he exhaled amid the pomp of war, A warrior's soul in that Teutonic car." Badham. [660] _Teutonico_, i. e., after his triumph over the Cimbri and Teutones. Cf. viii., 251. [661] _Campania._ Cf. Cic., Tus. Qu., i., 35, "Pompeius noster familiaris, cum graviter ægrotaret Neapoli, utrum si tum esset extinctus, à bonis rebus, an à malis discessisset? certè a miseriis, si mortem tum obiisset, in amplissimis fortunis occidisset." Achillas and L. Septimius murdered Pompey and cut off his head; which ἐφύλασσον Καίσαρι, ὡς ἐπὶ μεγίσταις ἀμοιβαῖς. Appian, B.C., ii., 86 [662] _P. Corn. Lentulus Sura_, was strangled in prison with Cethegus. Catiline fell in battle, near Pistoria in Etruria. [663] _Murmure._ Venus was worshiped under the name of ἀφροδίτη Ψίθυρος, because all prayers were to be offered in whispers. [664] _Delicias._ This is Heinrich's view. Grangæus explains it, "Ut pro ipsis vota deliciarum plena concipiat." Britannicus, "quasi diceret, optat ut tam formosa sit, ut eam juvenes in suos amplexus optent." [665] _Latona._ Hom., Od. vi., 106, γέγηθε δέ τε φρένα Λήτω. Virg., Æn., i., 502, Latonæ tacitum pertentant gaudia pectus. [666] _Lucretia._ "Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring, And Sedley cursed the form that pleased a king!" Johnson. [667] _Concordia._ Ov., Heroid, xvi., 288, "Lis est cum _forma_ magna _pudicitiæ_." "Chaste--is no epithet to suit with fair." Dryden. [668] _Tradiderit._ "Though through the rugged house, from sire to son, A Sabine sanctity of manners run." Gifford. [669] _Pœnas metuet._ The punishment of adulterers seems to have been left to the discretion of the injured husband rather than to have been defined by law. [670] _Laqueos._ Ov., Met., iv., 176, "Extemplo graciles ex ære catenas, Retiaque et laqueos quæ lumina fallere possint, elimat." Art. Am., ii., 561, _seq._ Hom., Odyss., viii., 266.