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.

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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.AEn.viii.181.Thus Benjamin was honoured with a "double portion." Gen.xliii.

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186 -- _Embattled walls._ "Another essential basis of mechanical unity in the poem is the construction of the rampart.