Hence "Mavortia Moenia." 183 --_Grimly he smiled._ "And death Grinn'd horribly a ghastly smile." --"Paradise Lost," ii. 845. "There Mavors stands Grinning with ghastly feature." --Carey's Dante: Hell, v. 184 "Sete o guerrieri, incomincio Pindoro, Con pari honor di pari ambo possenti, Dunque cessi la pugna, e non sian rotte Le ragioni, e 'l riposo, e de la notte." --Gier. Lib. vi. 51. 185 It was an ancient style of compliment to give a larger portion of food to the conqueror, or person to whom respect was to be shown. See Virg. Ćn. viii. 181. Thus Benjamin was honoured with a "double portion." Gen. xliii. 34. 186 --_Embattled walls._ "Another essential basis of mechanical unity in the poem is the construction of the rampart. This takes place in the seventh book. The reason ascribed for the glaring improbability that the Greeks should have left their camp and fleet unfortified during nine years, in the midst of a hostile country, is a purely poetical one: 'So long as Achilles fought, the terror of his name sufficed to keep every foe at a distance.' The disasters consequent on his secession first led to the necessity of other means of protection. Accordingly, in the battles previous to the eighth book, no allusion occurs to a rampart; in all those which follow it forms a prominent feature. Here, then, in the anomaly as in the propriety of the Iliad, the destiny of Achilles, or rather this peculiar crisis of it, forms the pervading bond of connexion to the whole poem."--Mure, vol. i., p. 257. 187 --_What cause of fear,_ &c. "Seest thou not this? Or do we fear in vain Thy boasted thunders, and thy thoughtless reign?"