[898] _Spartano._ The story is told Herod., vi., 86. A Milesian intrusted a sum of money to Glaucus a Spartan, who, when the Milesian's sons claimed it, denied all knowledge of it, and went to Delphi to learn whether he could safely retain it; but, terrified at the answer of the oracle, he sent for the Milesians and restored the money. Leotychides relates the story to the Athenians, and leaves them to draw the inference from the fact he subjoins: Γλαύκου νῦν οὔτε τι ἀπόγονόν ἐστιν οὐδὲν, οὔτ' ἱστίη οὐδεμίη νομιζομένη εἶναι Γλαύκου· ἐκτέτριπταί τε πρόῤῥιζος ἐκ Σπάρτης. [899] _Metu._ "Scared at this warning, he who sought to try If haply heaven might wink at perjury, Alive to fear, though still to virtue dead, Gave back the treasure to preserve his head." Hodgson. [900] _Tacitum._ Cf. King John, Act iv., "The deed which both our tongues held vile to name!" Cf. i., 167, "_tacitâ_ sudant præcordia culpâ." "Thus, but intended mischief, stay'd in time, Had all the moral guilt of finished crime." Badham. [901] _Crescente._ Ov., Heroid., xvi., 226, "_Crescit_ et invito lentus in ore _cibus_." [902] _Sed vina._ Read perhaps "Setina," as v., 33. [903] _Albani._ Cf. v., 33, "Cras bibet Albanis aliquid de montibus." Hor., iv., Od. xi., 1, "Est mihi nonum superantis annum plenus Albani cadus." Mart., xiii., 109, "Hoc de Cæsareis Mitis Vindemia cellis misit Iuleo quæ sibi monte placet." [904] _Velut acri._ Or perhaps, "as though the rich Falernian were _sour_ instead of _mellow_." "The rich Falernian changes into gall." Hodgson. [905] _Versata._ Cf. iii., 279. Hom., Il., xxiv., 10, _seq._ Sen., de Tranq. An., 2, "versant se et hoc atque illo modo componunt donec quietem lassitudine inveniant." "Propert.," I., xiv., 21, "Et miserum toto juvenem versare cubili." [906] _Sudoribus._ Cf. i., 167, "_Sudant_ præcordia culpâ." Cf. Ov., Her., vii., 65. [907] _Major._ Virg., Æn., ii., 773, "Notâ major imago." Suet., Claud., i., species mulieris _humanâ_ amplior. [908] _Amplior._ Tac., Ann., xi., 21, "oblata ei species muliebris ultra modum humanum." Suet., Aug., 94. [909] _Cogitque fateri._ The idea is probably from Lucret., v., 1157, "Quippe ubi se multei per somnia sæpe loquenteis, Aut morbo deliranteis protraxe ferantur Et celata diu in medium peccata dedisse." [910] _Quum tonat._ Suet., Calig., 51, "Nam qui deos tantopere contemneret, ad minima tonitrua et fulgura connivere, caput obvolvere; ad vero majora proripere se e strato, sub lectumque condere, solebat." [911] _Murmure._ Lucret., v., 1218, "Cui non conrepunt membra pavore Fulminis horribili cum plaga torrida tellus Contremit et magnum percurrunt murmura cœlum? Non populei gentesque tremunt." [912] _Cadai._ "Quæque cadent in te fulmina missa putes." Ov., Her., vii., 72. Pind., Nem., vi., 90, ζάκοτον ἔγχος. Hor., i., Od. iii., 40, "Iracunda Jovem ponere fulmina."