Note 139 — THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES.
Theodore Alois Buckley translation
So Catullus, iii. 4, 5.
Passer, deliciæ meæ puellæ, Quem plus illa oculis suis amabat.
And Vathek, p. 124 (of the English version), "Nouronihar loved her cousin more than her own beautiful eyes."—Old Translator. See Valcken. on Theocrit. xi. 53.