--'Od'., xi., 128.



It was the red cock _shouting_ to the light,


exactly the


[Greek: heos eboaesen alektor] (Until the cock _shouted_).

--'Batrachomyomachia', 192.



And all in passion utter'd a 'dry' shriek,


which is the 'sicca vox' of the Roman poets. So in 'The Lotos Eaters':--


His voice was _thin_ as voices from the grave,


which is Theocritus' voice of Hylas from his watery grave:--


[Greek: araia d' Iketo ph_ona]