affords a very just idea of the breadth of the Scamander." 271 --_Ignominious._ Drowning, as compared with a death in the field of battle, was considered utterly disgraceful. 272 --_Beneath a caldron._ "So, when with crackling flames a caldron fries, The bubbling waters from the bottom rise. Above the brims they force their fiery way; Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day." Dryden's Virgil, vii. 644. 273 "This tale of the temporary servitude of particular gods, by order of Jove, as a punishment for misbehaviour, recurs not unfrequently among the incidents of the Mythical world."--Grote, vol. i. p. 156. 274 --_Not half so dreadful._ "On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war." --Paradise Lost," xi. 708. 275 "And thus his own undaunted mind explores."--"Paradise Lost," vi. 113. 276 The example of Nausicaa, in the Odyssey, proves that the duties of the laundry were not thought derogatory, even from the dignity of a princess, in the heroic times. 277 --_Hesper shines with keener light._ "Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn." "Paradise Lost," v. 166. 278 Such was his fate. After chasing the Trojans into the town, he was slain by an arrow from the quiver of Paris, directed under the unerring auspices of Apollo. The greatest efforts were made by the Trojans to possess themselves of the body, which was however rescued and borne off to the Grecian camp by the valour of Ajax and Ulysses. Thetis stole away the body, just