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teares liue Walker in his Article, xci, on ‘Lie and live confounded’ (Crit. ii, 209) quotes this line, and adds, ‘Surely lie.’ [Can there be detected an improvement in lie over ‘live’? Indeed, lie lacks the active vitality which seems inherent in ‘live.’ Enobarbus seems to be unusually familiar with the effect of an onion on the lachrymal glands. He refers to it again in IV, ii, 47.—Ed.]

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