Note 240 — BOOK XV.

For, by the gods! who flies. Observe the bold ellipsis of “he cries,” and the transition from the direct to the oblique construction. So in Milton:— “Thus at their shady lodge arriv’d, both stood, Both turn’d, and under open sky ador’d The God that made both sky, air, earth, and heaven, Which they beheld, the moon’s resplendent globe, And starry pole.—Thou also mad’st the night, Maker omnipotent, and thou the day.” Milton, “Paradise Lost,” Book iv.