Yet lower down, harsh Anaxareté.
Stanza xii. line 1.
“Anaxarete was a girl of Salamis, who so arrogantly despised the addresses of Iphis, a youth of ignoble birth, that the lover hung himself at her door. She saw this sad spectacle without emotion, and was changed into a stone.”—Classical Dixtionary.—Ovid’s Met.
And him that vexed of old the Latian reign.
Stanza xiv. line 4.
Æneas.
As the lute’s music on the lumpish ass.
Stanza xix. line 8.
Asinus ad lyram.
And, in despite of all, their sovereign slew, &c.
Stanza xxxv. line 5.
Nothing is more striking in the story of the middle ages than the domineering insolence frequently displaid by the captains of hired adventurers in the courts of the princes who entertained them. This incident is not therefore so extravagant as it at first sight appears.
Nor Juno, nor Eurystheus, in such chase.
Stanza xxxix. line 1.
Nec vero Alcides tantum telluris obivit,
Fixerit æripidem cervam licet, aut Erymanthi
Pacârit nemora. Virgil.
