• Joshua, the leader of the Israelites after the death of Moses, to whom God said, Joshua 1:5:⁠— “As I was with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.” ↩
• The great Maccabee was Judas Maccabaeus, who, as is stated in Biblical history, 1 Maccabees 3:3, “gat his people great honor, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girt his warlike harness about him, and he made battles, protecting the host with his sword. In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion’s whelp roaring for his prey.” ↩
• Aeneid , VII , Davidson’s Tr. :⁠— “As at times a whip-top whirling under the twisted lash, which boys intent on their sport drive in a large circuit round some empty court, the engine driven about by the scourge is hurried round and round in circling courses; the unpractised throng and beardless band are lost in admiration of the voluble boxwood: they lend their souls to the stroke.” ↩