328 Albert S. Cook, 



55. The idle spear and shield. Cf. Bacchylides' poem on peace 

 (tr. Symonds) : 



Then in the steely shield swart spiders weave 



Their web and dusky woof; 

 Rust to the pointed spear and sword doth cleave ; 



The brazen trump sounds no alarm. 



Other passages resemble this, or are modeled upon it. Thus 

 Theocritus 16. 96-7; Nonnus, Dionys. 38. 13; Plutarch, Niima 19; 

 Nicias 9; an epigram of the Greek Anthology (ed. Jacobs, 1813, 6. 

 236), under the name of Philip ; Propertius 2. 25. 8 ; and, among 

 moderns, Ben Jonson, Prince Henry s Barriers 39—42 ; Peele, Poly- 

 hymnia ; Tennyson, Maud 28. 2. 27, 28 ; Lowell, Sir Launfal, Part 2, 

 stanza 9 ; even Thackeray, Rebecca and Roivena, chap. 1. 

 up hung. L. treats as one word. 



56. hookM chariot. Cf. Spenser, F.Q. 5. 8. 28. 4-5: 



And, mounting straight upon a charret hye. 

 With yron wheeles and hookes arm'd dreadfully. 



Hooked is the Lat. falcatiis {^xo%€), falcifer (poetry), the Greek doenn- 

 t'r,^6Qos. Xenophon attributes the invention of scythed chariots to 

 Cyrus (Cyr. 6. 1. 30, 50; ci. Anab. 1. 7. 10; 1. 8. 10). Silius Italicus 

 (17. 417—8 assigns the scythe-bearing chariot to the barbarians of 

 the North: 



Caerulus hand aliter, quum dimicat, incola Thules 



Agmina falcifero circumvenit arta covino. 



In 2 Maccabees 13. 2 we have a mtmtion of ' three hundred chariots 

 armed with hooks.' 



58. The trumpet spake not. Cf. Horace, Epod. 2. 4 : ' neque 

 excitatur classica miles truci ' ; Tibullus 1. 1. 4.- ' martia cui somnos 

 classica pulsa fugant ' ; Virgil, G. 2. 539 : ' Necdum etiam audierant 

 inflari classica.' Propertius 4(3). 2(3). 41—2 : ' Nil tibi sit rauco prae- 

 conia classica cornu flare.' The general idea occurs in L'Isle, To 

 the Prince (printed in his Divers Ancient Monuments). 



spake. Cf. Rev. 4. 1 : ' The first voice which I heard was as 

 it were of a trumpet talking with me'; similarly voice, Exod. 19. 

 16, 19; Isa. 58. 1; Rev. 1. 10; 8. 13. 



59. Marlowe, Faustus 9. 37, has : 



Great potentates do kneel with awful fear. 



(I owe this reference to my friend. Professor Charles G. Osgood.) 

 Perhaps both writers are indebted to such passages as Ps. 72. 11 ; 

 49. 7, 23; 52. 15. 



