_He whom ungrateful Athens_, &c., i.e., Aristides (see page 171),
distinguished by the surname of _The Just_. He was unjust, Pope means,
only when he signed the shell for his own condemnation.


_Phocion_. An Athenian general and statesman (402-318 B.C.), put to
death by Polysperchon. He injured rather than helped the liberties of
Athens.


_Agis_, "King of Sparta, who endeavoured to restore his state to
greatness by a radical agrarian reform, was after a mock trial murdered
in prison, B.C. 241." _Ward_.


_Cato_, who, to escape disgrace amid the evils which befell his country,
stabbed himself in 46 B.C.


_Brutus his ill Genius meets no more_. See the account of the Eve of
Philippi in Book IV.


_The wars of Troy_. Described by Homer in his Iliad.


_Tydides (Diomede) wounds the Cyprian Queen (Venus)_. A scene described
in the Iliad.