See Aulus Gellius, ii, 23.
172 -- _Scaean, i e._ left hand.
173 -- _In fifty chambers._ "The fifty nuptial beds, (such hopes had he, So large a promise of a progeny,) The ports of plated gold, and hung with spoils." Dryden's Virgil, ii.658 174 -- _O would kind earth,_ &c.

"It is apparently a sudden, irregular burst of popular indignation to which Hector alludes, when he regrets that the Trojans had not spirit enough to cover Paris with a mantle of stones.

This, however, was also one of the ordinary formal modes of punishment for great public offences.

It may have been originally connected with the same feeling--the desire of avoiding the pollution of bloodshed--which seems to have suggested the practice of burying prisoners alive, with a scantling of food by their side.

Though Homer makes no mention of this horrible usage, the example of the Roman Vestals affords reasons for believing that, in ascribing it to the heroic ages, Sophocles followed an authentic tradition."-- Thirlwall's Greece, vol.i.p.