p.

737, edit.
Wechel.)] [Footnote 12: Homer perpetually describes the exemplary patience of those female captives, who gave their charms, and even their hearts, to the murderers of their fathers, brothers, &c.

Such a passion (of Eriphile for Achilles) is touched with admirable delicacy by Racine.] [Footnote 13: Plutarch (in Pyrrho, tom.ii.p.474, edit.

Brian) gives the genuine answer in the Laconic dialect.

Pyrrhus attacked Sparta with 25,000 foot, 2000 horse, and 24 elephants, and the defence of that open town is a fine comment on the laws of Lycurgus, even in the last stage of decay.] [Footnote 14: Such, perhaps, as Homer (Iliad, xx.