1064
In proof of the establishment of this curious usage in our literature, (which attracted the notice of Selden,) see Mawmet, Maumetry in Richardson’s Dictionary, with the illustrative passages.
1065
Tro. 285-9, 1216.
1066
Hor. Ep. I. ii. 18.
1067
Hor. Epist. I. ii. 1-31.
1068
Æn. ii. 90. et seqq.
1069
Æn. vi. 628.
1070
Æn. iii. 272. sup. p. 522.
1071
Pind. Nem. iii. 43-64.
1072
Epithal. Pel. and Thet. 339-372.
1073
Hor. A. P. 120. It will be remembered that the ruthless Bentley struck out even the honoratum of the text, and, with an audacity surpassing his great ingenuity, put in Homereum.
1074
Il. i. 122.
1075
Ib. 149.
1076
Stat. Achill. i.
1077
Act v. sc. 5.
1078
Achilleis, v. 163.
1079
Seneca, Troades, 765. Ibid. 609 et seqq.
1080
Act iv.
1081
Ibid. 685.
1082
Prologue to Dryden’s Troilus and Cressida; and again in the Epilogue spoken by Thersites:
‘You British fools, of the old Trojan stock.’
1083
Hist. Greece, ch. i. sect. iv.
1084
Gerus. ii. 59.
1085
Gerus. ii. 58.
1086
Stevens on Troilus and Cressida.
1087
Chaucer’s Troilus and Cressida, book iv.
1088