undred years, listening to
it.--Longfellow, _Golden Legend_.

=Rhodalind=, daughter of Aribert, king of Lombardy, in love with Duke
Gondibert; but Gondibert preferred Birtha, a country girl, daughter of
the sage, Astr[)a]gon. While the duke is whispering sweet love-notes to
Birtha, a page comes post-haste to announce to him that the king has
proclaimed him his heir, and is about to give him his daughter in
marriage. The duke gives Birtha an emerald ring, and says if he is false
to her, the emerald will lose its lustre; then hastens to court, in
obedience to the king's summons. Here the tale breaks off, and was never
finished.--Sir Wm. Davenant, _Gondibert_ (1605-1668).

=Rhodian Venus= (_The_). This was the "Venus" of Protog'en[^e]s
mentioned by Pliny, _Natural History_, xxxv. 10.

When first the Rhodian's mimic art arrayed
The Queen of Beauty in her Cyprian shade,
The happy master mingled in his piece
Each look that charmed him in the fair of Greece.

Campbell, _Pleasures of Hope_, ii. (1799).

Prior (1664-1721) refers to the same painting in his fable of
_Protog[^e]nes and Appell[^e]s_:

I hope, sir, you intend to stay
To see our Venus; 'tis the piece
The most renowned throughout all Greece.

=Rhod'ope= (3 _syl._), or =Rhod'opis=, a celebrated Greek courtezan, who
afterwards married Psammetichus, king of Egypt. It is said she built the
third pyramid.--Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, xxxvi. 12.

A statelier pyramis to her I'll rear,
Than Rhodope's.

Shakespeare, _Henry VI._ act i. sc. 6 (1589).

=Rhombus=, a schoolmaster who speaks "a leash of languages at once,"
puzzling himself and his hearers with a jargon like that of
"Holofern[^e]s" in Shakespeare's _Love's Labor's Lost_ (1594).--Sir
Philip Sidney, _Pastoral Entertainment_ (1587).

_Rhombus_, a spinning-wheel or rolling instrument used by the Roman
witches for fetching the moon out of heaven.

Quae nunc Thessalico lunam deducere rhombo [_sciet_].--Martial,
_Epigrams_, ix. 30.

=Rhone of Christian Eloquence= (_The_), St. Hilary (300-367).

=Rhone of Latin Eloquence= (_The_). St. Hilary is so called by St. Jerome
(300-367).

=Rhongomyant=, the lance of King Arthur.--_The Mabinogion_ ("Kilhwch and
Olwen," twelfth century).

=Rhyming to Death.= In 1 _Henry VI._ act i. sc. 1, Thomas Beaufort, duke
of Exeter, speaking about the death of Henry V., says, "Must we think
that the subtle-witted