Note 197 — BOOK VIII.

Ungrateful, because the cause in which they were engaged was unjust. “Struck by the lab’ring priests’ uplifted hands The victims fall: to heav’n they make their pray’r, The curling vapours load the ambient air. But vain their toil: the pow’rs who rule the skies Averse beheld the ungrateful sacrifice.” Merrick’s Tryphiodorus, vi. 527, sqq.