84. If Jovis or Jupitris.
85. The celebrated Roman grammarian. A proverbial phrase for the
violation of grammar was "Breaking Priscian's head."
86. Livy says, Actius Nevius cut a whetstone through with a razor.
87. A kind of lizard that was supposed to kill all it looked at--
"Whose baneful eye
Wounds at a glance, so that the soundest dye."
--
De Bartas, 6me jour 1me sem.
88. Epimenides (Titus x. 12)--
[Greek omitted]
89. Nero having heard a person say, "When I am dead, let earth be
mingled with fire," replied, "Yes, while I live."--Suetonius,
Vit. Nero. 90. Alluding to the story of the Italian, who, having been provoked by
a person he met, put a poniard to his heart, and threatened to
kill him if he would not blaspheme God; and the stranger doing
so, the Italian killed him at once, that he might be damned, hav-
ing no time to repent.
91. A rapier or small sword.
92. The battle here referred to was the one between Don John of
Austria and the Turkish fleet, near Lepanto, in 1571.
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