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 came elevated by wine, is also the forerunner of mischief ('Odyssey,' iii. 138)."--Grote, ii. p. 91, _note._ 83 This sceptre, like that of Judah (Genesis xlix. 10), is a type of the supreme and far-spread dominion of the house of the Atrides. See Thucydides i. 9. "It is traced through the hands of Hermes, he being the wealth giving god, whose blessing is most efficacious in furthering the process of acquisition."--Grote, i. p. 212. Compare Quintus Calaber (Dyce's Selections, p. 43). "Thus the monarch spoke, Then pledged the chief in a capacious cup, Golden, and framed by art divine (a gift Which to Almighty Jove lame Vulcan brought Upon his nuptial day