This dead silence

Makes me more apprehend than all the noise
That madmen raise.

Lee's Caesar Borgia, act iii. sc. I.

1244

Εἰ θέμις εἰπεῖν, οὐκ ἀλλοτρίαν
Ατην, ἀλλ' αὐτὸς ἁμαρτών.

See Choeph. Well. 465.

1261

1270

Οἴμοι, λεωπάτητον ἀντρέπων χαρών.

But now mischance hath trod my title down,
And with dishonour laid me on the ground.

Henry VI. Part iii. act iii. sc. 3.

Ἰὼ δυσκάθαρτος "Αιδου λιμήν.

God! would I were arrived in the port
Of Deth, to which my sorrow will me lede.

There. Hopetown was slain, again and again.

Sir John Denham's Western Wonder.

1279

Οὐ γὰρ ἐν μυχοῖς ἔτι.

1318

Rara mens intelligit,

Quod interiori condidit cura angulo.

Phædr. Lib. iv. Fab. ii. 16.

Ως πεπρωμένης

Οὐκ ἔστι θνητοῖς συμφορᾶς ἀπαλλαγή.

For this commonplace, see Theognis, line 817; Apoll. Rhod. i. 1035.

1325

Τὰ δ ̓ ἐπὶ κρατί μοι

Πότμος δυσκόμιστος εἰσήλατο.

Agam. 1148; Persæ 507; Œd. Tyr. 264.

17

ELECTRA.

Ως ἡμὶν ἤδη λαμπρὸν ἡλίου σέλας
Εφα κινεῖ φθέγματ ̓ ὀρνίθων σαφῆ.

66

God said unto him, “ Shine !” and he broke forth
Into the dawn, which lighted not the yet
Unform'd forefather of mankind-but roused
Before the human orison the earlier

Made and far sweeter voices of the birds.

Byron's Heaven and Earth, part i. sc. 3.

31

Εἰ μή τι καιροῦ τυγχάνω, μεθάρμοσον

42

Mone, (quæso) si quid erro.

Plaut. Mostell. act i. sc. 3.

Γάρ σε μὴ γήρᾳ τε καὶ χρόνῳ μακρῷ
Γνῶσ', οὐδ ̓ ὑποπτεύσουσιν ὧδ ̓ ἐνθισμένον.

Think not my virtue gone, though time has shed
These reverend honours on my hoary head,

Thus trees are crown'd with blossoms white as snow.

Pope's January and May, from Chaucer's Merchant's Tale.

For the whiteness

Upon my head

What does it signify, but like a tree that blossoms

Before the fruit doth come.

Marmion's Antiquary, act i. sc. 1.

When age

shall turn thee

Webster's Vittoria Corombona.

White as a blooming hawthorn.

See also Ed. Tyr. 735. Of the expression there occurring, I am surprised to find that Hermann has taken no notice. He gives a different sense to ἠνθισμένον.

54

75

Τύπωμα χαλκόπλευρον ᾐρμένοι χεροίν.

Construct,

Suspensi lævo tabulas loculosque lacerto.

Καιρὸς γὰρ, ὅσπερ ἀνδράσιν
Μέγιστος ἔργου παντός ἐστ' ἐπιστάτης.

Hor.

Theognis, 401.

When many a mingled cry

Oft sounded to the listening midnight air.

Bowles's Lines on the Grave of Howard.