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No more the thirsty Erinnys of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood. OLD TRANSLATOR.

[154] See above, v. 383.

[155] Somewhat to the same effect is the dream of Atossa in the Persae.

[156] I prefer Blomfield's transposition to Dindorf's correction, [Greek: blapsiphronos], which, though repudiated in the notes, is still adopted by Paley.

[157] A noble impersonation of the sword.

[158] Shakespeare, King John, Act 4, sc. 2:

That blood, which own'd the breadth of all this isle, Three foot of it doth hold.

King Henry IV.