“Whose insolence and never yet match’d pride
Can by no character be well express’d,
But in her only name, the proud Erota.”
Colman’s note.
The poet intended no allusion to the word “Erota” itself; but says that
her very name, “the proud Erota,” became a character and adage;—as we say,
a Quixote or a Brutus: so to say an “Erota,” expressed female pride and
insolence of beauty.
_Ib._ Speech of Antinous:—
“Of my peculiar honours, not deriv’d
From _successary_, but purchas’d with my blood.”
The poet doubtless wrote “successry,” which, though not adopted in our
language, would be, on many occasions, as here, a much more significant
phrase than ancestry.
“The Little French Lawyer.”