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. Ćn. viii. 181. Thus Benjamin was honoured with