share, their plenteous dinner haste, Some strip the skin; some portion out the spoil; The limbs yet trembling, in the caldrons boil; Some on the fire the reeking entrails broil. Stretch'd on the gr****y turf, at ease they dine, Restore their strength with meat, and cheer their souls with wine." Dryden's "Virgil," i. 293. 69 --_Crown'd, i.e._ filled to the brim. The custom of adorning goblets with flowers was of later date. 70 --_He spoke,_ &c. "When a friend inquired of Phidias what pattern he had formed his Olympian Jupiter, he is said to have answered by repeating the lines of the first Iliad in which the poet represents the majesty of the god in the most sublime terms; thereby signifying that the genius of Homer had inspired him with it. Those who beheld this statue are said to have been so struck with it as to have asked whe