it is, perhaps, strength and convenience, rather than elegance, that he means to commend, in speaking of the fair house which Paris had built for himself with the aid of the most skilful masons of Troy."--Thirlwall's Greece, vol. i. p. 231. 176 --_The wanton courser._ "Come destrier, che da le regie stalle Ove a l'usa de l'arme si riserba, Fugge, e libero al fiu per largo calle Va tragl' armenti, o al fiume usato, o a l'herba." Gier, Lib. ix. 75. 177 --_Casque._ The original word is stephanae, about the meaning of which there is some little doubt. Some take it for a different kind of cap or helmet, others for the rim, others for the cone, of the helmet. 178 --_Athenian maid:_ Minerva. 179 --_Celadon,_ a river of Elis. 180 --_Oileus, i.e._ Ajax, the son of Oileus, in contradistinction to Ajax, son of Telamon. 181 --_In the general's helm._ It was customary to put the lots into a helmet, in which they were well shaken up; each man then took his choice. 182 --_God of Thrace._ Mars, or Mavors, according to his Thracian epithet. Hence "Mavortia Moenia." 183 --_Grimly he smiled._ "And death Grinn'd horribly a ghastly smile." --"Paradise Lost," ii. 845. "There Mavors stands Grinning with ghastly feature." --Carey's Dante: Hell, v. 184 "Sete o guerrieri, incomincio Pindoro, Con pari honor di pari ambo possenti, Dunque cessi la pugna, e non sian rotte Le ragioni, e 'l riposo, e de la notte." --Gier. Lib. vi. 51. 185 It was an ancient style of compliment to give a larger portion of food to the conqueror, or person to whom respect was to be shown. See Virg