34. Messenus: Misenus, son of Aeolus, the companion and
trumpeter of Aeneas, was drowned near the Campanian
headland called Misenum after his name. (Aeneid, vi. 162 et
seqq.)
35. Joab’s fame as a trumpeter is founded on two verses in 2
Samuel (ii. 28, xx. 22), where we are told that he “blew a
trumpet,” which all the people of Israel obeyed, in the one case
desisting from a pursuit, in the other raising a siege.
36. Theodamas or Thiodamas, king of the Dryopes, plays a
prominent part in the tenth book of Statius’ “Thebaid.” Both he
and Joab are also mentioned as great trumpeters in The
Merchant’s Tale.