116 "His lab'ring heart with sudden rapture seized He paus'd, and on the ground in silence gazed. Unskill'd and uninspired he seems to stand, Nor lifts the eye, nor graceful moves the hand: Then, while the chiefs in still attention hung, Pours the full tide of eloquence along; While from his lips the melting torrent flows, Soft as the fleeces of descending snows. Now stronger notes engage the listening crowd, Louder the accents rise, and yet more loud, Like thunders rolling from a distant cloud." Merrick's "Tryphiodorus," 148, 99. 117 Duport, "Gnomol. Homer," p. 20, well observes that this comparison may also be sarcastically applied to the _frigid_ style of oratory. It, of course, here merely denotes the ready fluency of Ulysses. 118 --_Her brothers' doom._ They perished in combat with Lynceus and Idas, whilst besieging Sparta. See Hygin. Poet Astr. 32, 22. Virgil and others, however, make them share immortality by turns. 119 Idreus was the arm-bearer and charioteer of king Priam, slain during this war. Cf. Ćn, vi. 487. 120 --_Scaea's gates,_ rather _Scaean gates,_ _i.e._ the left-hand gates. 121 This was customary in all sacrifices. Hence we find Iras descending to cut off the hair of Dido, before which she could not expire. 122 --_Nor pierced._ "This said, his feeble hand a jav'lin threw, Which, flutt'ring, seemed to loiter as it flew, Just, and but barely, to the mark it held, And faintly tinkled on the brazen shield." Dryden's Virgil, ii. 742. _ 123 Reveal'd the queen._ "Thus having said, she turn'd and made appear Her neck refulgent and dishevell'd hair, Which, flowing from her shoulders, reach'd the ground, And widely spread ambrosial scents around. In len