[188] {404}[A cavity at the lower end of the lead attached to a
sounding-line is
partially
filled with an _arming_ (tallow), to which
the bottom, especially if it be sand, shells, or fine gravel,
adheres.
Byron
????? [To~| Mo/mo| a)re/skein] _Momo santisfacere;
vide Adagia_ Variorum, 1643, p. 58. Byron describes Suwarrow as "Now
Mars, now Momus" (_Don Juan_, Canto VII. stanza lv. line 7).]
[187] {403}[For the "Theban brethren," Eteocles and Polynices, see the
_Septem c. Thebas_ of AEschylus. Byron had read and liked the "Seven
before Thebes."--_Letters_, 1900, iv. 174.
]
[188] {404}[A cavity at the lower end of the lead attached to a
sounding-line is
partially
filled with an _arming_ (tallow), to which
the bottom, especially if it be sand, shells, or fine gravel,
adheres.
--Knights's _American Mechanical Dictionary_, 1877, art.
"Sounding-Apparatus."]
[189] {405}[Compare _The Age of Bronze_, line 45, for the story of
Sesostris being drawn by kings. (See Diodorus Siculus, _Bibl. Hist._,
lib. i. p. 37, C., ed. 1604, p. 53.)]
[ct] {406} _And never offered aught as a reward_.--[MS. M.
