object of their common worship, but also as their actual progenitor."--Grote vol. i. p. 248. 133 "The plant she bruises with a stone, and stands Tempering the juice between her ivory hands This o'er her breast she sheds with sovereign art And bathes with gentle touch the wounded part The wound such virtue from the juice derives, At once the blood is stanch'd, the youth revives." "Orlando Furioso," book 1. 134 --_Well might I wish._ "Would heav'n (said he) my strength and youth recall, Such as I was beneath Praeneste's wall-- Then when I made the foremost foes retire, And set whole heaps of conquer'd shields on fire; When Herilus in single fight I slew, Whom with three lives Feronia did endue." Dryden's Virgil, viii. 742. 135 --_Sthenelus,_ a son of Capaneus, one of the Epigoni. He was one of the suitors of Helen, and is said to have been one of those who entered Troy inside the wooden horse. 136 --_Forwarn'd the horrors._ The same portent has already been mentioned. To this day, modern nations are not wholly free from this superstition. 137 --_Sevenfold city,_ Boeotian Thebes, which had seven gates. 138 --_As when the winds._ "Thus, when a black-brow'd gust begins to rise, White foam at first on the curl'd ocean fries; Then roars the main, the billows mount the skies, Till, by the fury of the storm full blown, The muddy billow o'er the clouds is thrown." Dryden's Virgil, vii. 736. 139 "Stood Like Teneriffe or Atlas unremoved; His stature reach'd the sky." --"Paradise Lost," iv. 986. 140 The Abantes seem to have been of Thracian origin. 141 I may, once for a