Note 244 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
"Arma diu sênior desueta trementibus ævo Circumdat nequicquam humeris, et inutile ferrum Cingitur"——
Æneid, Lib. II.
"He—when he saw his regal town on fire, His ruin'd palace, and his entering foes, On every side inevitable woes; In arms disused invests his limbs, decay'd, Like them, with age; a late and useless aid."
Dryden.