, to suggest the idea
conveyed in _uestras_ as opposed to _potuisti_, the family abode as
opposed to the individual Theseus.

183 _Flexibly fleeting_

bent as they move rapidly through the water.

186 _No glimmer of hope_

from Heyse,

Keinerlei Flucht, kein Schimmer der Hoffnung, stumm liegt Alles.

258 _Gordian._

She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue,
Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue.

KEATS, _Lamia_, Part I.

308 _Wreaths sat on each hoar crown, whose snows flush' d rosy beneath them._

I have attempted here to give what I conceive Catullus may have meant to
convey by the remarkable collocation _At roseo niueae residebant uertice
uittae_. Properly, the wreaths are rosy, the locks snow-white; but the
colour of the wreaths is so blent with the colour of the locks that each
is lost in the other, and an inversion of epithets becomes possible.

_So, in fury of heart, shall death's stern reaper, Achilles._

A verse seems to have been lost here, which I have thus supplied.

LXVIII. 149.

_So, it is all I can, take, Allius, answer, a little
Verse, to requite thy much friendship, a contrary boon_.

These little rites, a stone, a verse, receive,
'Tis all a father, all a friend can give.

POPE, _Epitaph on the children of Lord Digby._

LXIX. 4.

_Clarity_

clearness, transparency.

Here clarity of candour, history's soul,
The critical mind in short.

BROWNING, _Ring and Book_, i. 925.

LXX.

Sir Philip Sidney thus translates this poem:--

Unto no body my woman saith shee had rather a wife be,
Then to myself, not though Jove grew a suter of hers.
These be her words, but a woman's words to a love that is eager,
Midde [windes?] or waters stream do require to be writ.

XCIX. 10.

_Fricatrice._

To a lewd harlot, a base fricatrice.

BEN JONSON, _The Fox_, iv. 2.

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