Page 320.
'Nor quit the leaguered town.'
As Virgil repeatedly speaks of the Trojan camp as 'urbs,' I have ventured here to call it a town.
Page 343.
'Like knot in sturdy wood.'
Virgil's allusion in the word 'nodum' is probably rather to a knot which needs untying than to a knot in wood; but it was necessary to give some metaphor which might be equivalent to his, and the resistance made by a knot in wood to the blade of an axe naturally suggested itself.
Page 407.
'Latium has other maids unwed,
And worthy of a royal bed.'
'Yet more, three daughters in his court are bred,
And each well worthy of a royal bed.'
Pope's Homer, Iliad, book ix.
Page 408.
'The arbitrament of fight to dare.'
'Singly to dare the arbitrement of fight.'
Symmons's Æneid, book xi. 562.
Page 425.
'And earth with trampling throbs and thrills.'
The words 'throbs and thrills' are taken from a poem by a friend to whose criticism this work owes much.
Page 438.
'And bucklers clashed with brazen din
The overture of fight begin.'
'The overture of tyranny's begun' is the younger Symmons's version of Æsch. Ag. 1354, φροιμιάζονται γὰρ Τυραννίδος σημεῖα πράσσοντες πόλει.
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