and sunset form the epoch of_
_Sorrow and love; and they who mark them not_
{_Are fit for neither of those_
{_Can ne'er hold converse with these two_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[am] _Of labouring wretches in alloted tasks_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[an] {97} _We are used to such inflictions_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[29] {101} About two miles and a half.

[ao] {102} _Complexions, climes, aeras, and intellects_.--[MS. M.
erased.]

[30] {103}[Athenaeus represents the treasures which Sardanapalus placed
in the chamber erected on his funeral pile as amounting to a thousand
myriads of talents of gold, and ten times as many talents of silver.]

[ap]

_Ye will find the crevice_
_To which the key fits, with a little care_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[31] {106}["Then the king caused a huge pile of wood to be made in the
palace court, and heaped together upon it all his gold, silver, and
royal apparel, and enclosing his eunuchs and concubines in an apartment
within the pile, caused it to be set on fire, and burned himself and
them together."--Diod. Siculi _Bibl. Hist._, lib. ii. cap. 81A.

"And he also erected on the funeral pile a chamber 100 feet long, made
of wood, and in it he had couches spread, and there he himself lay down
with his wife, and his concubines lay on other couches around.... And he
made the roof of the apartment of large stout beams, and there all the
walls of it he made of numerous thick planks, so that it was impossible
to escape out of it,... And ... he bade the slaves set fire to the
pile; and it was fifteen days burning. And those who saw the smoke
wondered, and thought that he was celebrating a great sacrifice, but the
eunuchs alone knew what was really being done. And in this way
Sardanapalus, who had spent his life in extraordinary luxury, died with
as much magnanimity as possible."--Athenaeus, _Deipnosophistae_, bk. xii.
cap. 38.

See _Abydenus apud Eusebium_, Praep. Ev. 9. 41. 4; Euseb., _Chron_.,
1878, p. 42, ed. A. Schoene.

Saracus was the last king of Assyria, and being invaded by Cyaxares and
a faithless general Nabopolassar ... "unable to resist them, took
counsel of despair, and after all means of resistance were exhausted,
burned himself in his palace."

"The self-immolation of Saracus has a parallel in the conduct of the
Israelitish king Zimri, who, 'when he saw that the city was taken, went
into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over
him,