that he would fain sentence him to an honourable banishment. (See Minucius Felix, Section 22.) Coleridge, Introd. p. 154, well observes, that the supreme father of gods and men had a full right to employ a lying spirit to work out his ultimate will. Compare "Paradise Lost," v. 646: "And roseate dews disposed All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest." 77 --_Dream_ ought to be spelt with a capital letter, being, I think, evidently personified as the god of dreams. See Anthon and others. "When, by Minerva sent, a _fraudful_ Dream Rush'd from the skies, the bane of her and Troy." Dyce's "Select Translations from Quintus Calaber," p.10. 78 "Sleep'st thou, companion dear, what sleep can close Thy eye-lids?" --"Paradise Lost," v. 673. 79 This truly military sentiment has been echoed by the approving voice of many a general and statesman of antiquity. See Pliny's Panegyric on Trajan. Silius neatly translates it, "Turpe duci totam somno consumere noctem." 80 --_The same in habit, &c._ "To whom once more the winged god appears; His former youthful mien and shape he wears." Dryden's Virgil, iv. 803. 81 "As bees in spring-time, when The sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of this straw-built citadel, New-nibb'd with balm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs. So thick the very crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd."--"Paradise Lost" i. 768. 82 It was the herald's duty to make the people sit down. "A _standing_ agora is a symptom of manifest terror (II. Xviii. 246) an evening agora, to which men