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WANDERINGS IN 



Fourth coiiie lip to tliose of tliis ill-fated Monarch. The Greeks 



Journey. 



first set his town on fire, and then began to bully : — 



Incensa Danai doniinantur in urbe." 



One of his sons was slain before his face ; ' ' ante ora 

 parentum, concidit." Another was crushed to mummy 

 by boa constrictors ; " immensis orbibus angues." His 

 city was rased to the ground, " jacetllion ingens." And 

 Pyrrhus ran him through with his sword, " capulo tenus 

 abdidit ensem." This last may be considered as a for- 

 tunate stroke for the poor old king. Had his life been 

 spared at this juncture, he could not have lived long. 

 He must have died broken-hearted. He would have 

 seen his son-in-law, once master of a noble stud, now, 

 for want of a horse, obliged to carry off his father, up 

 hill, on his own back, " cessi et sublato, montem geni- 

 tore petivi." He would have heard of his grandson 

 being thrown neck and heels from a high tower, mitti- 

 tur Astyanax illis de turribus." He would have been 

 informed of his wife tearing out the eyes of king Odrysius 

 with her finger nails, " digitos in perfida lumina condit." 

 Soon after this, losing all appearance of woman, she 

 became a bitch, 



" Perdidit infelix, hominis post omnia forraam," 



and rent the heavens with her bowlings, 



Externasque novo latratu terruit auras." 



