blockaded, and receive assistance from their allies to the very end."--Coleridge, p. 212. 247 --_Ciconians._--A people of Thrace, near the Hebrus. 248 --_They wept._ "Fast by the manger stands the inactive steed, And, sunk in sorrow, hangs his languid head; He stands, and careless of his golden grain, Weeps his associates and his master slain." Merrick's Tryphiodorus, v. 18-24. "Nothing is heard upon the mountains now, But pensive herds that for their master low, Straggling and comfortless about they rove, Unmindful of their pasture and their love." Moschus, id. 3, parodied, _ibid._ "To close the pomp, Ćthon, the steed of state, Is led, the funeral of his lord to wait. Stripp'd of his trappings, with a sullen pace He walks, and the big tears run rolling down his face." Dryden's Virgil, bk. ii 249 --_Some brawny bull._ "Like to a bull, that with impetuous spring Darts, at the moment when the fatal blow Hath struck him, but unable to proceed Plunges on either side." --Carey's Dante: Hell, c. xii. 250 This is connected with the earlier part of last book, the regular narrative being interrupted by the message of Antilochus and the lamentations of Achilles. 251 --_Far in the deep._ So Oceanus hears the lamentations of Prometheus, in the play of Ćschylus, and comes from the depths of the sea to comfort him. 252 Opuntia, a city of Locris. 253 Quintus Calaber, lib. v., has attempted to rival Homer in his description of the shield of the same hero. A few extracts from Mr. Dyce's version (Select Translations, p. 104, seq.) may here be introduced. "In the wide circle of the shield were seen