354 Albert S. Cook. 



if their merits be good ; if evil, Lemures, goblins ; if uncertain. 

 Manes. This distinction, however, is not observed by Milton. Jer- 

 ome, commenting on Isa. 57. 7 (Migne, Pair. Lat. 24. 551), touches 

 upon the worship of the Lares, as does the Codex Theodosianus 

 16. 10. 12 (ed. Haenel, coll. 1617-8). 

 Cf Mantuan, Opera 1. 236 b: 



Ex adytis pulsi lemures per inania terras 

 Spiramenta viam celeres iniere sub ima 

 Tartara, secretisque diu latuere cavernis. 



moan. For the shrieking and gibbering attributed to ghosts, 

 cf Homer, Od. 24. 6 ff. ; Virgil, jEn. 6. 492-3 ; Claudian, /;; Rufin. 

 1. 126-8; Ovid, F. 2. 551; Lucan 6. 620; Statins, Theb. 7. 70; 

 Shakespeare, Haml. 1. 1.116; Fairfax's translation of Tasso, Ger. 

 Lib. 9. 15. 6. 



midnight. Note the time, with reference to the birth of Christ. 

 192. Cf Lucan 1. 563: 



Compositis plence gemuerunt ossibus urnae. 



194. flamens. In the Areopagiiica Milton says of the Romans 

 that ' the pontifical college, with their augurs and flamens, taught 

 them in religion and law.' Verity quotes the reference in Of Re- 

 formation [P. IV. 2. 365) to the ' palls and mitres, gold and gewgaws, 

 fetched from Aaron's old wardrobe or the flamens' vestry,' and 

 in The Reason of Church Govcrmnent (P. W. 2. 485) to ' fiaminical 

 vestures.' 



195. sweat. So Virgil G. 1. 480 (Dunster) : 



Et mcestum inlacrimat templis ebur, asraque sudant ; 



Ovid, Met. 15. 792: 



Mille locis lacrimavit ebur. 



Cicero (De Div. 1. 43) tells how 'the statue of Apollo at Cumas was 

 covered with a miraculous sweat, and that of Victory was found in 

 the same condition at Capua ' ; similarly 2. 27. Augustine {Civ. Dei 

 3. 11) refers to the statue of Apollo as persisting 'four days together 

 in continual weeping.' The De Dea Syria attributed to Lucian 

 speaks of how the statues at Hierapolis ' are observed to sweat.' 

 Lucan (1. 582—3) has: 



hidigetes flevisse deos, Urbisque laborem 



Testatos sudore Lares. 



In the third eclogue (ca. 1524) of Alexander Barclay (as pointed 

 out by Mustard, Amer. Jour. Phil. 29. 4) we find : 



