Part 46 (1/2)

XXIII. Is recognized by his wife.

XXIV. Visits his old father, Laertes; and the poem ends.

=a'grian Harpist= (_The_), Orpheus, son of a'gros and Cal'liope.

... can no lesse Tame the fierce walkers of the wilderness, Than that agrian harpist, for whose lay Tigers with hunger pined and left their prey.

Wm. Browne, _Brittania's Pastorals_, v. (1613).

='dipos= (in Latin _dipus_), son of Laus and Jocasta. The most mournful tale of cla.s.sic story.

? This tale has furnished the subject matter of several tragedies. In Greek we have _dipus Tyrannus_ and _dipus at Colonus_, by Sopho'ocles.[TN-45] In French, _dipe_, by Corneille (1659); _dipe_, by Voltaire (1718); _dipe chez Admete_, by J. F. Ducis (1778); _dipe Roi_ and _dipe a Colone_, by Chenier; etc. In English, _dipus_, by Dryden and Lee.

=no'ne= (3 _syl._), a nymph of Mount Ida, who had the gift of prophecy, and told her husband, Paris, that his voyage to Greece would involve him and his country (Troy) in ruin. When the dead body of old Priam's son was laid at her feet, she stabbed herself.

Hither came at noon Mournful none, wandering forlorn Of Paris, once her playmate on the hills [_Ida_]

Tennyson, _none_.

? Kalkbrenner, in 1804, made this the subject of an opera.

=no'pian=, father of Mer'ope, to whom the giant Orion made advances.

nopian, unwilling to give his daughter to him, put out the giant's eyes in a drunken fit.

Orion ...

Reeled as of yore beside the sea, When blinded by nopian.

Longfellow, _The Occultation of Orion_.

=te'an Knight= (_The_). Her'cules is so called, because he burnt himself to death on Mount ta or taea, in Thessaly.

So also did that great tean knight For his love's sake his lion's skin undight.

Spenser, _Faery Queen_, v. 8 (1596).

=Offa=, king of Mercia, was the son of Thingferth, and the eleventh in descent from Woden. Thus: Woden (1) his son Wihtlaeg, (2) his son Waermund, (3) Offa I., (4) Angeltheow, (5) Eomaer, (6) Icel, (7) Pybba, (8) Osmod, (9) Enwulf, (10) Thingferth, (11) Offa, whose son was Egfert, who died within a year of his father. His daughter, Eadburga, married Bertric, king of the West Saxons; and after the death of her husband, she went to the court of King Charlemagne. Offa reigned thirty-nine years (755-794).

=O'Flaherty= (_Dennis_), called ”Major O'Flaherty.” A soldier, says he, is ”no livery for a knave,” and Ireland is ”not the country of dishonor.”

The major pays court to old Lady Rusport, but when he detects her dishonest purposes in bribing her lawyer to make away with Sir Oliver's will, and cheating Charles Dudley of his fortune, he not only abandons his suit, but exposes her dishonesty.--c.u.mberland, _The West Indian_ (1771).

=Og=, king of Basan. Thus saith the rabbis:

The height of his stature was 23,033 cubits [_nearly six miles_].