559.
110 "As when some peasant in a bushy brake Has with unwary footing press'd a snake; He starts aside, astonish'd, when he spies His rising crest, blue neck, and rolling eyes" Dryden's Virgil, ii.

510.
111 Dysparis, i.e.unlucky, ill fated, Paris.

This alludes to the evils which resulted from his having been brought up, despite the omens which attended his birth.
112 The following scene, in which Homer has contrived to introduce so brilliant a sketch of the Grecian warriors, has been imitated by Euripides, who in his "Phoenissae" represents Antigone surveying the opposing champions from a high tower, while the paedagogus describes their insignia and details their histories.
113 -- _No wonder,_ &c.

Zeuxis, the celebrated artist, is said to have appended these lines to his picture of Helen, as a motto.

Valer Max.
iii.