XXVI. SIR ROGER AND SIR ANDREW IN ARGUMENT

=Motto.= "I recall the argument, and remember that Thyrsis was

vanquished."--Virgil, _Eclogues_, vii. 69.

=179=: 9. =The old Roman fable.= The fable of the Belly and the

Members, told in Livy, Bk. ii, Chap. xxxii; retold by Shakespeare in

_Coriolanus_, i. 1. 99.

=179=: 13. =The landed and trading interest.= See note, p. 242.

=180=: 3. =Carthaginian faith.= _Punica fides_, a phrase used by the

Romans to characterize the treachery of the Carthaginians.

=183=: 21. =Throws down no man's enclosure, and tramples upon no man's

corn=, as country gentlemen do when hunting over the grounds of their

neighbours or their tenants.

=184=: 22. =His family had never been sullied by a trade.= It will be

remembered that Sir Roger was sensitive on this point. See IX, p. 89.

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