or understood, and it is, perhaps, strength and convenience, rather than elegance, that he means to commend, in speaking of the fair house which Paris had built for himself with the aid of the most skilful masons of Troy."--Thirlwall's Greece, vol. i. p. 231. 176 --_The wanton courser._ "Come destrier, che da le regie stalle Ove a l'usa de l'arme si riserba, Fugge, e libero al fiu per largo calle Va tragl' armenti, o al fiume usato, o a l'herba." Gier, Lib. ix. 75. 177 --_Casque._ The original word is stephanae, about the meaning of which there is some little doubt. Some take it for a different kind of cap or helmet, others for the rim, others for the cone, of the helmet. 178 --_Athenian maid:_ Minerva. 179 --_Celadon,_ a river of Elis. 180 --_Oileus, i.e._ Ajax, the son of Oileus, in contradistinction to Ajax, son of Telamon.