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TRIPOD. So they. Meanwhile the silverfooted dame Reach'd the Vulcanian dome, eternal frame! High-eminent amid the works divine, Where heaven's far-beaming brazen mansions shine. <strong>The</strong>re the lame architect the goddess found, Obscure in smoke, his forges flaming round, While bathed in sweat from fire to fire he flew; And puffing loud, the roaring billows blew. That day no common task his labour claim'd: Full twenty tripods for his hall he framed,
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The
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with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alo
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BOOK XVI. BOOK XVII. BOOK XVIII. BO
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VENUS, DISGUISED, INVITING HELEN TO
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GREEK SHIELD. BACCHUS. AJAX DEFENDI
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[pg ix] INTRODUCTION. Scepticism is
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cures in the Church. History and tr
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in which critics will allow us to b
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all written tradition, concerning t
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theis to manage his household, and
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they reached Ithaca. Here Melesigen
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They avowed their willingness to su
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heard him recite, acquainted him wi
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al habit. Whereupon Homer addressed
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[pg xv] Chandler, 12 "the most curi
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ecognized by a Samian, who had met
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is involved. With no less truth and
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orial office compels us to give som
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Are things which Kuster, Burmann, W
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to deal, and with the following bol
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and his associates, in reference to
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ler difficulty by running into a gr
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[pg xx] "At what period," continues
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the narrowest reading class in Gree
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still comparatively few, might have
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meric age, however the irregular us
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later, and it may fairly be suspect
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Olysseid. Could France have given b
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mann's 28 modification of his theor
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period of its first compilation." T
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ternal as external, enable us to ju
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of Peisistratus, while its historic
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next followed, as it aided the memo
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"While employed on the wild legend
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ship of the Homeric poems. To deny
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the history of a thousand minute po
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the capabilities of the same gentle
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nobling impulses of the soul; and t
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crowd in one mighty vision, or reve
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eading an heroic poem we must trans
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his nation the mirror, in which the
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Can we contemplate that ancient mon
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cient wit, the author of which was
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can see, with as much reason to Hom
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of the contradictory versions alrea
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er, I might have brought a large am
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POPE'S PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOME
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Our author's work is a wild paradis
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wheel, by its own rapidity. Exact d
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for his imagination, and created a
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of story. If he has given a regular
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head, are by no means for their inv
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his own, that no painter could have
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thus, or the rest, In like manner i
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ion, that it was in this part Homer
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pecially, that he has scarce any co
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managed them) they are a sort of su
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that harmony which makes us confess
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Thus on whatever side we contemplat
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pours out his riches with a boundle
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make, commit something near extrava
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lent, as they are more contrary to
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fices then believed to belong to th
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of as they occur in the course of t
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make those accidents (such as the c
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lopped into form to give it a more
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aising and improving their author.
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at all. Simplicity is the mean betw
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antique cast. But certainly the use
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are introduced. For example, the ep
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they be tedious, the author is to a
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perhaps he endeavoured to strain th
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in. He seems to have had too much r
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attentively in comparison with Virg
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finite pleasure, the many friendly
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thor of the tragedy of "Heroic Love
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have experienced the candour and fr
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BOOK I. ARGUMENT. 40 THE CONTENTION
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[pg 002] the Æthiopians, at whose
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Extends the sceptre and the laurel
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Till time shall rifle every youthfu
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[pg 004] Till, safe at distance, to
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The pyres, thick-flaming, shot a di
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That sacred seer, whose comprehensi
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Not e'en the chief by whom our host
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To teach the Greeks to murmur at th
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The due reward of many a wellfought
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[pg 007] The man who suffers, loudl
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Inglorious slave to interest, ever
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[pg 008] Though mine the sweat and
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Go, threat thy earth-born Myrmidons
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[pg 009] Minerva swift descended fr
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"Forbear (the progeny of Jove repli
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And joins the sacred senate of the
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By this I swear:—when bleeding Gr
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Who thus with mild benevolence bega
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Do you, young warriors, hear my age
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[pg 012] Grant that the gods his ma
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A well-rigg'd ship for Chrysa's sac
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[pg 013] Pensive they walk along th
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Unskill'd to judge the future by th
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Sure to so short a race of glory bo
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The priest of Phoebus sought by gif
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But now he seized Briseis' heavenly
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The affrighted gods confess'd their
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Why have I borne thee with a mother
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Then down the steep she plunged fro
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Then near the altar of the darting
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The choicest morsels lay from every
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The parted ocean foams and roars be
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The thunderer sat; where old Olympu
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Thus Thetis spoke; but Jove in sile
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He spoke, and awful bends his sable
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The sacred counsels of almighty min
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That strives to learn what heaven r
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The feast disturb'd, with sorrow Vu
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Once in your cause I felt his match
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[pg 024] And Juno slumber'd on the
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[pg 025] BOOK II. ARGUMENT. THE TRI
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to the poet to enumerate all the fo
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And nodding Ilion waits the impendi
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[pg 027] To whom its safety a whole
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What scenes of grief, and numbers o
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[pg 028] A dream divine appear'd be
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Now, valiant chiefs! since heaven i
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[pg 029] Dusky they spread, a close
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Subjects all Argos, and controls th
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Must want a Trojan slave to pour th
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Before the blast the lofty harvests
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Haste, goddess, haste! the flying h
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Thus graced, attention and respect
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[pg 032] With words like these the
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And much he hated all, but most the
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[pg 033] Some captive fair, to bles
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The man who acts the least, upbraid
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While to his neighbour each express
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Till Troy's proud structures should
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Straight to the tree his sanguine s
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Thus spoke the prophet, thus the Fa
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[pg 036] And thunder rolling shook
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In arts of counsel, and in speaking
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[pg 037] With the huge shield each
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Then wise Ulysses in his rank was p
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The thighs, selected to the gods, d
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Blazed on her arm, and lighten'd al
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With rushing troops the plains are
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Jove o'er his eyes celestial glorie
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NEPTUNE. The hardy warriors whom Bo
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[pg 041] For flocks Erythrae, Gliss
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Where Anemoria's stately turrets sh
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The fair Caristos, and the Styrian
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Or close the embodied host in firm
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And Ægion, and Adrastus' ancient r
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While vainly fond, in fancy oft he
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[pg 044] Where the fat herds in ple
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Diores sprung from Amarynceus' line
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[pg 045] He led the warriors from t
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And saw their blooming warriors ear
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Next thirty galleys cleave the liqu
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Then, when the chief the Theban wal
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Where hills incircle Boebe's lowly
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Or where Ithome, rough with rocks,
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Where cold Dodona lifts her holy tr
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[pg 048] Their height, their colour
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And fires Typhoeus with redoubled b
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[pg 049] The foreign troops: this d
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(A mortal mixing with the queen of
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His fiery coursers thunder o'er the
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Thy groves of box, Cytorus! ever gr
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And proud Miletus, came the Carian
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[pg 051] BOOK III. ARGUMENT. THE DU
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Moves into ranks, and stretches o'e
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Now front to front the hostile armi
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Smit with a conscious sense, retire
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When Greece beheld thy painted canv
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Thy force, like steel, a temper'd h
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Then with his spear restrain'd the
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And different nations part in leagu
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[pg 055] Within the lines they drew
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So dreadful late, and furious for t
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[pg 056] Lean'd on the walls and ba
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But lift thy eyes, and say, what Gr
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[pg 057] "O bless'd Atrides! born t
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Then Helen thus: "Whom your discern
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Nor raised his head, nor stretch'd
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One bold on foot, and one renown'd
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Thus with a lasting league our toil
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Eternal Jove! and you bright orb th
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[pg 060] "Hear, mighty Jove! and he
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The lists of combat, and the ground
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[pg 061] Braced in and fitted to hi
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Destroy the aggressor, aid my right
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[pg Struggling he followed, while t
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The goddess softly shook her silken
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Struck with her presence, straight
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VENUS PRESENTING HELEN TO PARIS. Th
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Then, all dispersing, various tasks
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These softer moments let delights e
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Be therefore now the Spartan wealth
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Map, titled "Graeciae Antiquae".
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Menelaus, who is wounded, but cured
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[pg 068] Each danger wards, and con
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THE COUNCIL OF THE GODS. "Shall the
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That Troy, and Troy's whole race th
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At this the goddess rolled her radi
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And the proud Trojans first infring
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(In shape a mortal,) pass'd disguis
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'Twas form'd of horn, and smooth'd
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The gods forget not, nor thy guardi
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[pg 072] Then, with a sigh, that he
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Such mighty woes on perjured prince
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[pg 073] To whom the king: "My brot
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The shaft he drew, but left the hea
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[pg 074] Jove is with Greece, and l
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And clasp'd the warrior to his arme
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[pg 075] A cloud of heroes blacken'
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Then to the next the general bends
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Our great forefathers held this pru
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The solemn council best becomes the
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Whole troops before you labouring i
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(The warlike Sthenelus attends his
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Dared, and subdued before their hau
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The sons subdued, for Heaven was on
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Shields urged on shields, and men d
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The nations bleed, where'er her ste
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And shades eternal settle o'er his
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Brought forth the babe, their commo
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In act to throw; but cautious look'
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[pg 081] The great, the fierce Achi
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And quivering in his heaving bosom
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[pg 082] And counted heroes where h
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[pg 083] BOOK V. ARGUMENT. THE ACTS
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But Pallas now Tydides' soul inspir
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And first bold Phegeus cast his sou
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While we from interdicted fields re
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[pg 085] And everlasting shades his
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The hapless artist, while confused
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[pg 086] Which stain'd with sacred
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His bended bow against the chief he
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O give my lance to reach the Trojan
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With tenfold ardour now invades the
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Though now determined by Tydides' s
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Exploring Pandarus with careful eye
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And turns unseen the frustrate dart
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"Too late, O friend! my rashness I
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Practised alike to turn, to stop, t
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[pg 090] "O friend! two chiefs of f
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That both shall fall by one victori
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[pg 091] Pierced the tough orb, and
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O'er the fall'n trunk his ample shi
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His danger views with anguish and d
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The raging chief in chase of Venus
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The fainting chief, and wards the m
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And show'd the wound by fierce Tydi
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[pg 094] Then she: "This insult fro
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The shaft found entrance in his iro
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[pg 095] From fields of death when
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And, calling Venus, thus address'd
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[pg 096] So spoke the god who darts
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The god of battle issues on the pla
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Far distant hence I held my wide co
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On earth he leaps, his brazen armou
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Each Trojan bosom with new warmth h
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Dispersed and broken through the ru
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In dust Orsilochus and Crethon laid
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[pg 099] He thus advancing, Nestor'
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Meanwhile his temples feel a deadly
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[pg 100] And foam impervious 'cross
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His massy spear with matchless fury
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[pg 101] Sheathed in bright arms ea
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I make this present to the shades b
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Thy angry lance; which piercing to
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My helpless corpse, an unassisted p
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Stretch'd in their blood, lay gaspi
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[pg 103] Rich with immortal gold th
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Jove's cuirass blazes on her ample
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Commission'd in alternate watch the
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"Go! and the great Minerva be thy a
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[pg 105] Or foaming boars, the terr
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The goddess leaning o'er the bendin
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[pg 106] For Mars, the homicide, th
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DIOMED CASTING HIS SPEAR AT MARS. J
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Loud as the roar encountering armie
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All heaven beside reveres thy sover
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[pg 108] Inhuman discord is thy dir
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Juno and Pallas mount the bless'd a
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[pg 109] BOOK VI. ARGUMENT. THE EPI
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Dark showers of javelins fly from f
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By great Euryalus was Dresus slain,
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His headlong steeds, precipitate in
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Well hast thou known proud Troy's p
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Had not sage Helenus her state redr
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With offer'd vows, in Ilion's topmo
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Then thus aloud: "Ye dauntless Dard
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And meet a lance the fiercest heroe
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Approach, and enter the dark gates
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And the brave prince in numerous to
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A goat's rough body bore a lion's h
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[pg 115] (Fair e'en in heavenly eye
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Thus ever let us meet, with kind em
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[pg 116] We guard the friendship of
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In fifty chambers lodged: and rooms
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[pg 117] Inflaming wine, pernicious
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That pest of Troy, that ruin of our
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[pg 118] They fill the dome with su
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The steely point with golden ringle
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[pg 119] "Brother, 'tis just, (repl
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"Oh, generous brother! (if the guil
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Urge thou thy knight to march where
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Where late the mourning matrons mad
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[pg 121] Whom each soft charm and e
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And think'st thou not how wretched
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"By the same arm my seven brave bro
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Thrice our bold foes the fierce att
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Not all my brothers gasping on the
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And Hector hasted to relieve his ch
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[pg 124] She mingled with a smile a
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That stream'd at every look; then,
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[pg 125] And now, the warriors pass
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The battle renewing with double ard
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Both breathing slaughter, both reso
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Fierce she descends: Apollo marked
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At this agreed, the heavenly powers
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The thronging troops obscure the du
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But let my body, to my friends retu
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[pg 130] Go then! resolve to earth,
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Though bold and burning with desire
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[pg 131] How would he lift his aged
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Had given the vanquish'd, now the v
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And next his bulk gigantic Ajax rea
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Held out in order to the Grecian pe
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Grant thou, that Telamon may bear a
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As from a brazen tower, o'erlook'd
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To combat born, and bred amidst ala
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The blunted point against the buckl
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[pg 135] The sacred ministers of ea
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Let him demand the sanction of the
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He gave the Greek. The generous Gre
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When now the rage of hunger was rem
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So Greece to combat shall in safety
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But sound ungrateful in a warrior's
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And whose the conquest, mighty Jove
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[pg 138] The Greeks gave ear, but n
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Some search the plains, some fell t
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[pg 139] About the dying flames the
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Those radiant structures raised by
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[pg 140] With Bacchus' blessings ch
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[pg 141] GREEK AMPHORA—WINE VESSE
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Teucer, who is at length wounded by
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Back to the skies with shame he sha
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The all-mighty spoke, nor durst the
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Between the extended earth and star
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The sounding darts in iron tempests
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Nor each stern Ajax, thunderbolts o
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The glory of the Greeks, the Pylian
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Thus said the chief; and Nestor, sk
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The quivering steeds fell prostrate
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Not those who felt thy arm, the Dar
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Great Hector heard; he saw the flas
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And all your master's well-spent ca
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And see his Trojans to the shades d
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[pg 148] To Ajax and Achilles reach
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His vows, in bitterness of soul pre
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[pg The Atridae first, the Ajaces n
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The ranks grow thinner as his arrow
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Still aim'd at Hector have I bent m
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Headlong he falls: his sudden fall
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Or in the trench on heaps confusedl
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Now, in this moment of her last des
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When to grim Pluto's gloomy gates h
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[pg 152] The radiant robe her sacre
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JUNO AND MINERVA GOING TO ASSIST TH
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From Ida's top her golden wings dis
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She flew; and Juno thus her rage re
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[pg 154] THE HOURS TAKING THE HORSE
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Who shall the sovereign of the skie
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The goddess thus; and thus the god
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And drew behind the cloudy veil of
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[pg 156] Our steeds to forage, and
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The insidious foe the naked town in
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[pg 157] Shall crush the Greeks, an
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O'er the dark trees a yellower verd
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THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES.
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cil summoned to deliberate what mea
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[pg 160] Himself his orders to the
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And towers and armies humbles to th
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They gave thee not—a brave and vi
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Still first to act what you advise
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With Thracian wines recruit thy hon
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The king of men, on public counsels
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You wronged the man, by men and god
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Seven lovely captives of the Lesbia
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Yet more—three daughters in my co
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Who feels no mercy, and who hears n
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[pg 165] The monarch thus. The reve
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And large libations drench'd the sa
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Placed in his tent, attends the lof
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The brazen vase Automedon sustains,
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[pg 167] Not those more honour'd wh
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And must we, gods! our heads inglor
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[pg 168] If thou wilt yield to grea
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These instant shall be thine; and i
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Æpea fair, the pastures Hira yield
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What in my secret soul is understoo
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And sweat laborious days in dust an
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Slave as she was, my soul adored th
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[pg 171] The wealth he left for thi
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Not all the golden tides of wealth
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Content with just hereditary sway;
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Bid all your counsels, all your arm
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Attend the stern reply. Then Phoeni
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To shine in councils, and in camps
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They daily feast, with draughts of
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And Phoenix felt a father's joys in
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[pg 175] Due honours to the seed of
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This beast (when many a chief his t
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[pg 176] She beat the ground, and c
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The matrons ravish'd, the whole rac
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One should our interests and our pa
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And gifts can conquer every soul bu
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There cease his battle, and there f
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"Say what success? divine Laertes'
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With sorrow seized, in consternatio
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Then each to Heaven the due libatio
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and contriving all possible methods
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Meges for strength, Oileus famed fo
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Assembling there, between the trenc
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He heard, return'd, and took his pa
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Ill fits thy age these toils to und
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What must not Greece to her deliver
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Then thus the king of men the conte
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The stars shine fainter on the ethe
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Thus sheathed in arms, the council
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Peace was his charge; received with
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Even to the royal tent pursue my wa
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[pg 189] Moving this way, or hasten
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As when two skilful hounds the leve
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"O spare my youth, and for the brea
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Whose wives and infants, from the d
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In cruel chains, till your return r
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O speed our labours, and direct our
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[pg 192] Urge thou the slaughter, w
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Just then a deathful dream Minerva
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[pg 193] In haste he mounted, and h
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Ulysses stopp'd; to him Tydides bor
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[pg 194] Scarce had he spoke, when,
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Whose hostile king the brave Tydide
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[pg 195] They sit, rejoicing in her
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is pierced with an arrow by Paris,
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The squadrons spread their sable wi
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As sweating reapers in some wealthy
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Atrides spoil'd, and left them on t
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Their bones he cracks, their reekin
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[pg 200] These words, attended with
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And the thick thunder beats the lab
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[pg 201] The path they take, and sp
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"Iris, with haste thy golden wings
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From sage Antenor and Theano sprung
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Till, grasp'd with force, he wrench
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[pg 203] And through his arm stood
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Sad mothers of unutterable woes!) S
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[pg 204] Lo, Jove himself declares
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As when a western whirlwind, charge
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And from his car the proud Thymbrae
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The far-famed hero of Paeonian stra
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And a short darkness shades his swi
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But pierced his foot, and nail'd it
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Steeps earth in purple, gluts the b
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[pg 207] And round him deep the ste
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He said, and forceful pierced his s
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[pg Ah, wretch! no father shall thy
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Great Ajax, like the god of war, at
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[pg 209] And lays Lysander bleeding
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And great Machaon to the ships conv
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O'er heaps of carcases, and hills o
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Then sourly slow the indignant beas
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Marks the dry dust, and thirsts for
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With pious care, great Ajax joins t
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The time is come, when yon despairi
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[pg 212] (Whom to his aged arms, a
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Meantime Patroclus, by Achilles sen
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[pg 213] Chief after chief the ragi
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Oppress'd, we arm'd; and now this c
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My sire denied in vain: on foot I f
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I seized his car, the van of battle
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How shall he grieve, when to the et
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Such gentle force the fiercest mind
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Weak was his pace, but dauntless wa
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[pg 216] Once taught Achilles, and
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HERCULES.
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The Trojans follow his counsel; and
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[pg 218] Then Ida's summits pour'd
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But this the gods in later times pe
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[pg 219] Just at the brink they nei
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But should they turn, and here oppr
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[pg 220] By orders strict the chari
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The moving legions speed their head
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[pg 221] This Polypoetes, great Per
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On every side the crackling trees t
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What man could doubt but Troy's vic
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And all her guardian gods, in deep
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Their martial fury in their wonder
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Then hear my words, nor may my word
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The leading sign, the irrevocable n
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[pg 224] With ardour follow where t
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Since not alike endued with force o
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[pg 225] The circling seas, alone a
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And shepherds gall him with an iron
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[pg 226] That when with wondering e
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And saw where Teucer with the Ajace
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Your strength, united, best may hel
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Prepared to labour in the unequal f
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Might stop the progress of his warl
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And through his buckler drove the t
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One foot, one inch, of the contende
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[pg 229] Shoots up, and all the ris
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And seems a match for more than mor
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The eight-and-twentieth day still c
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Whose waving woods o'erhung the dee
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His whirling wheels the glassy surf
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The heavens re-echo, and the shores
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There Greece has strength: but this
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Favouring descends, and wills to st
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While tears of rage stand burning i
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A prey to every savage of the wood:
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Hark! the gates burst, the brazen b
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[pg 235] The close compacted legion
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The first of gods, this day inspire
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[pg 236] And blest in bright Medesi
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And just had fastened on the dazzli
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[pg 237] And breathes destruction o
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Wills us to fall inglorious! Oh, my
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Which to pale man the wrath of heav
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That shed a lustre round the illumi
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Against his bosom beats his quiveri
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[pg 239] So Mars armipotent invades
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These can the rage of haughty Hecto
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[pg 240] Thus by despair, hope, rag
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For this, of Jove's superior might
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The great Idomeneus bestrides the d
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As when the mountain-oak, or poplar
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On his raised arm by two strong bra
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To wail his fate in death's eternal
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"Behold, Deiphobus! nor vaunt in va
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[pg 243] The bold Deiphobus approac
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And met the Trojan with a lowering
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[pg 244] Moves on in rank, and stre
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Though now unfit an active war to w
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The hollow helmet rings against the
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Along the chine, his eager javelin
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Disarm'd, he mingled in the Trojan
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But harmless bounded from the plate
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Pisander's spear fell shiver'd on t
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[pg 247] A princess raped transcend
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And the bold son of Pylaemenes slew
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[pg 248] Paris from far the moving
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With such a tide superior virtue sw
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(Young Ajax' brother, by a stolen e
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But skill'd from far the flying sha
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To some the powers of bloody war be
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Achilles, great Achilles, yet remai
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Some low in dust, (a mournful objec
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[pg 251] I scatter'd slaughter from
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The afflicted deeps tumultuous mix
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[pg The skill of war to us not idly
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Enormous boaster! doom'd to vaunt i
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[pg 253] GREEK EARRINGS. BOOK XIV.
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advantage of his slumber, and succo
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[pg 254] His wounded eyes the scene
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In lines advanced along the shelvin
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[pg 255] Not Jove himself, upon the
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Then, if impetuous Troy forbear the
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[pg Is this a general's voice that
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Lies whelm'd in ruins of the Theban
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Beyond the missile javelin's soundi
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And sent his voice before him as he
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Safe from access of each intruding
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[pg 258] Thus issuing radiant with
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Whelm'd under the huge mass of eart
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[pg 259] Whilst from Olympus please
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And his hush'd waves lie silent on
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[pg 260] Nor for the deed expect a
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SLEEP ESCAPING FROM THE WRATH OF JU
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[pg 261] Sat Sleep, in likeness of
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Which held so long that ancient pai
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[pg 262] Nor comelier Ceres' more m
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Not even the sun, who darts through
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[pg 263] To check a while the haugh
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Thus arm'd, not Hector shall our pr
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Pale mortals tremble, and confess t
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And cursed the lance that unavailin
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[pg 265] Clanks on the field, a dea
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And seals again, by fits, his swimm
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The soul of Ajax burn'd above the r
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He spake, and smiled severe, for we
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Drove through the neck, and hurl'd
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[pg 267] Ye all-beholding, all-reco
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BACCHUS.
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submissions; she is then sent to Ir
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[pg 269] His senses wandering to th
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Nor pull the unwilling vengeance on
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If truth inspires thy tongue, procl
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Nor one of all the heavenly host en
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Unmoved his mind, and unrestrain'd
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But dare not murmur, dare not vent
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Thus to the impetuous homicide she
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[pg 272] Receive, and execute his d
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Strives he with me, by whom his pow
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No vassal god, nor of his train, am
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"Great is the profit (thus the god
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Seeks his own seas, and trembles at
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Again his loved companions meet his
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Even I will make thy fiery coursers
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[pg 275] Soon as they see the furio
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Fierce as he is, let Hector learn t
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These drink the life of generous wa
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Though born of lawless love: from h
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The coursers fly; the smoking chari
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Exhort their men, with praises, thr
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Legions on legions from each side a
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He spoke; and, speaking, swifter th
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But, pierced by Telamon's huge lanc
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[pg 279] Dear as a parent, with a p
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Then, fired to vengeance, rush'd am
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[pg 280] Thy arms no less suffice t
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When happy nations bear the marks d
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How Hector calls, and Troy obeys hi
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His radiant arms triumphant Meges b
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But Hector's voice excites his kind
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[pg 282] With equal ardour Melanipp
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He said; and backward to the lines
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[pg 283] While stones and darts in
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He foams with wrath; beneath his gl
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[pg 284] Bursts as a wave that from
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The son redeem'd the honours of the
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With mutual honour, and with mutual
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But looks a moving tower above the
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And breathes fierce spirits in his
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Wounded, they wound; and seek each
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Of reverend dotards check'd our glo
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No aids, no bulwarks your retreat a
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[pg 289] While the black vessels sm
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Or may some meaner cause thy pity c
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[pg 290] "O man unpitying! if of ma
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"Patroclus! thy Achilles knows no f
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Go save the fleets, and conquer in
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Rage uncontroll'd through all the h
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And painful sweat from all his memb
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And smote his thigh, and thus aloud
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Buckles. The brave Automedon (an ho
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Grim as voracious wolves, that seek
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Eudorus next; whom Polymele the gay
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[pg 294] This stern remembrance to
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Ranks wedged in ranks; of arms a st
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But Peleus' son; and Peleus' son to
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Oh! be his guard thy providential c
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[pg 296] Thus from the tents the fe
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Unbless'd Protesilaus to Ilion's sh
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Forced from the navy, yet the fight
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His arm falls spouting on the dust
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Full on the juncture of the neck an
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But still at Hector godlike Ajax ai
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Fierce on the rear, with shouts Pat
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[pg 299] From their deep beds he bi
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And with unmanly tremblings shook t
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With this reproach his flying host
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Say, shall I snatch him from impend
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[pg 301] She said: the cloud-compel
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The starting coursers, and restrain
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[pg 302] The trembling limbs, and s
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The reeking fibres clinging to the
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For thou, though distant, canst res
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Stretch'd by Patroclus' arm on yond
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And send the living Lycians to the
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[pg 304] And, like an eagle darting
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An iron circle round the carcase gr
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[pg 305] Vain are thy vaunts; succe
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And stuck with darts by warring her
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Then Hector's mind he fills with di
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To the soft arms of silent Sleep an
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[pg 307] Of matchless swiftness, bu
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Epistor, Melanippus, bite the groun
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[pg 308] (Thy brother, Hecuba! from
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His front, brows, eyes, one undisti
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Stern Hector fastens on the warrior
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While on each host with equal tempe
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Long used, untouch'd, in fighting f
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Thus, by an arm divine, and mortal
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The fancied scenes of Ilion wrapt i
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[pg 311] The gods inspire it, and i
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But swift Automedon with loosen'd r
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On the cold earth divine Patroclus
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Nor panther braves his spotted foe
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Let heaven decide our fortune, fame
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[pg 314] While the fierce Spartan t
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Thus having spoke, Apollo wing'd hi
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[pg 315] Did but the voice of Ajax
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The body to Achilles to restore Dem
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On Hector frowning, thus his flight
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The sword for glory, and his countr
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The strong he withers, and confound
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Now blazing in the immortal arms he
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No more officious, with endearing c
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[pg 318] Tor this, our wealth, our
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On thee, on me, perhaps, my friend,
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[pg 319] Whole Troy embodied rush'd
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The first attack the Grecians scarc
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[pg 320] Lamented youth! in life's
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Struck at the sight, recede the Tro
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[pg 321] "Oh lasting shame! to our
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Close in their ranks commands to fi
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But death and darkness o'er the car
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The mangled body bathed in sweat an
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First perish all, ere haughty Troy
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Circled their arched necks, and wav
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The field, and spread her slaughter
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No Greek like him the heavenly stee
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Each hopes the conquest of the loft
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[pg 325] Which pass'd the shield of
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Poor as it is, some offering to thy
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[pg 326] To thee the greatest in wh
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With riches honour'd, and with cour
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The affrighted hills from their fou
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Had graced the triumphs of his Troj
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What human strength and prudence ca
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"Now, now, Atrides! cast around thy
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So parts the chief; from rank to ra
Page 1493 and 1494: [pg 329] From his fair eyes the tea
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Page 1497 and 1498: [pg 330] To whelm some city under w
Page 1499 and 1500: High on poised pinions, threats the
Page 1501 and 1502: [pg 331] BOOK XVIII. ARGUMENT. THE
Page 1503 and 1504: And now it rises, now it sinks by t
Page 1505 and 1506: Dead is Patroclus! For his corse th
Page 1507 and 1508: The circling Nereids with their mis
Page 1509 and 1510: How wretched, were I mortal, were m
Page 1511 and 1512: And thus the silver-footed dame beg
Page 1513 and 1514: [pg 334] New woes, new sorrows, sha
Page 1515 and 1516: Wrath and revenge from men and gods
Page 1517 and 1518: [pg 335] Soon shall the sanguine to
Page 1519 and 1520: The sea-green sisters plunge beneat
Page 1521 and 1522: But check'd, he turns; repuls'd, at
Page 1523 and 1524: Thy friend's disgrace, thy own eter
Page 1525 and 1526: [pg 337] Shall take new courage, an
Page 1527 and 1528: Struck from the walls, the echoes f
Page 1529 and 1530: Meantime, unwearied with his heaven
Page 1531 and 1532: JUNO COMMANDING THE SUN TO SET. "In
Page 1533 and 1534: [pg 339] Nor what I tremble but to
Page 1535 and 1536: And proud Maeonia wastes the fruits
Page 1537 and 1538: The worst advice, the better to ref
Page 1539 and 1540: One fate the warrior and the friend
Page 1541 and 1542: Beneath the vase, and climbs around
Page 1543: Say, shall not I one nation's fate
Page 1547 and 1548: [pg 342] And, smiling, thus the wat
Page 1549 and 1550: And soft received me on their silve
Page 1551 and 1552: The monarch's steps two female form
Page 1553 and 1554: [pg 344] So pierced with sorrows, s
Page 1555 and 1556: He marches, combats, almost conquer
Page 1557 and 1558: [pg 345] And stubborn brass, and ti
Page 1559 and 1560: Two cities radiant on the shield ap
Page 1561 and 1562: [pg 346] Two golden talents lay ami
Page 1563 and 1564: In arms the glittering squadron ris
Page 1565 and 1566: The master meets them with his gobl
Page 1567 and 1568: And curl'd on silver props, in orde
Page 1569 and 1570: Dread the grim terrors, and at dist
Page 1571 and 1572: The gazing multitudes admire around
Page 1573 and 1574: BOOK XIX. ARGUMENT. THE RECONCILIAT
Page 1575 and 1576: And gild the courts of heaven with
Page 1577 and 1578: "Goddess! (he cried,) these gloriou
Page 1579 and 1580: [pg 351] O'er all the corse. The fl
Page 1581 and 1582: Then many a hero had not press'd th
Page 1583 and 1584: Unruly murmurs, or ill-timed applau
Page 1585 and 1586: 'From us, (he said) this day an inf
Page 1587 and 1588: And whirl'd her headlong down, for
Page 1589 and 1590: With emulation, what I act survey,
Page 1591 and 1592: The king of men shall rise in publi
Page 1593 and 1594: Talthybius shall the victim boar co
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Thy praise it is in dreadful camps
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[pg 355] If trembling in the ships
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He crops, and offering meditates hi
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Not else Atrides could our rage inf
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Once tender friend of my distracted
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Is bent to please him, this request
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Of all neglectful, wage a hateful w
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Haste and infuse ambrosia in his br
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[pg 358] Full in the midst, high-to
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Next, his high head the helmet grac
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[pg 359] The charioteer then whirl'
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Thy rage in safety through the file
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HERCULES.
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meet Achilles. After a long convers
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[pg 361] (The work of Vulcan,) sat
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Their troops but lately durst not m
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Her bravest heroes pant with inward
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And the toss'd navies beat the heav
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With fiery Vulcan last in battle st
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Observed the fury of his flying spe
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[pg 364] Through the thick troops t
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And leave to war the fates of morta
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[pg 365] Gives the loud signal, and
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Resolved on vengeance, or resolved
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Her lofty walls not long our progre
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Hear how the glorious origin we pro
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[pg 367] Three sons renown'd adorn'
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Women alone, when in the streets th
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The forceful spear of great Achille
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And can ye see this righteous chief
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[pg 369] The king of ocean to the f
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Secure no Grecian force transcends
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Whate'er this heart can prompt, or
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The single fight with Thetis' godli
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And left him sleeping in eternal sh
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To the forbidden field he takes his
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Then with revengeful eyes he scann'
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[pg 372] "Wretch! thou hast 'scaped
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Unhappy boy! no prayer, no moving a
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[pg Succeeds to fate: the spear his
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The spiky wheels through heaps of c
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[pg 374] BOOK XXI. ARGUMENT. THE BA
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[pg 375] Part to the town fly diver
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Repeated wounds the reddening river
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But kind Eetion, touching on the sh
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Try, if the grave can hold the wand
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And scarce twelve morning suns have
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But least, the sons of Priam's hate
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Thy bloated corpse, and suck thy go
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[pg 378] Flows from the source of A
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Threatening he said: the hostile ch
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"So ends thy glory! Such the fate t
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All scatter'd round the stream (the
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Not till proud Hector, guardian of
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His feet, upborne, scarce the stron
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And gather fast, and murmur at his
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Wash'd from beneath him slides the
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The power of ocean first: "Forbear
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[pg 382] Not a whole river stops th
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No Greeks shall e'er his perish'd r
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Rush the swift eastern and the west
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The watery willows hiss before the
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Me, only me, with all his wasteful
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And views contending gods with care
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[pg 385] The scornful dame her conq
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Minerva smiling heard, the pair o'e
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We shared the lengthen'd labours of
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Like yearly leaves, that now, with
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Thy sex's tyrant, with a tiger's he
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"How shall I face the dame, who giv
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Some proud in triumph, some with ra
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[pg 388] He comes, and desolation m
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And wrapt in clouds, restrain'd the
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And such his valour, that who stand
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The lifted javelin, thus bespoke th
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Flies from the furious chief in thi
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BOOK XXII. ARGUMENT. THE DEATH OF H
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Close to the walls, advancing o'er
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What gasping numbers now had bit th
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Full at the Scaean gates expects th
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But if (which Heaven forbid) alread
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(Dire pomp of sovereign wretchednes
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The words of age; attend a parent's
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He stood, and question'd thus his m
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[pg 394] And add half Ilion's yet r
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Thus at the panting dove a falcon f
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[pg 395] By these they pass'd, one
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Now see him flying; to his fears re
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The certain hound his various maze
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Sign'd to the troops to yield his f
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Obey'd; and rested, on his lance re
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Or let us stretch Achilles on the f
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"Talk not of oaths (the dreadful ch
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[pg 398] Now shakes his lance, and
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"'Tis so—Heaven wills it, and my
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[pg 399] When all the starry train
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While cast to all the rage of hosti
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[pg 400] Nor rob the vultures of on
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The reeking javelin, cast it on the
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If in the melancholy shades below,
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Given to the rage of an insulting t
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(Guide or companion, friends! I ask
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"Ah why has Heaven prolong'd this h
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Forth from her ivory hand the shutt
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And sought for glory in the jaws of
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ANDROMACHE FAINTING ON THE WALL. "O
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To help him now! no father to defen
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And when still evening gave him up
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[pg 405] BOOK XXIII. ARGUMENT. FUNE
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day is employed in felling the timb
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For such a warrior Thetis aids thei
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The huge ox bellowing falls; with f
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And bid the forests fall: (such rit
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Living, I seem'd his dearest, tende
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[pg 408] May mix our ashes in one c
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Alas! how different! yet how like t
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The wood the Grecians cleave, prepa
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But great Achilles stands apart in
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And now the sun had set upon their
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Sad sacrifice! twelve Trojan captiv
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THE FUNERAL PILE OF PATROCLUS. Nor
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[pg 412] "Not so (the dame replied)
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With large libations from the golde
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"Ye kings and princes of the Achaia
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The sacred relics to the tent they
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An ample double bowl contents the l
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[pg 414] The steeds of Tros beneath
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Compare those rivals' judgment and
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[pg 415] And round, a circle for th
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The last, but not least ardent for
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(Each o'er his flying courser hung
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She breaks his rival's chariot from
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Haste then: yon narrow road, before
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His horse compell'd; foreboding in
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And saw the foremost steed with sha
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[pg 418] Eumelus' steeds, high boun
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High o'er his head the circling las
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[pg 419] Such, and so narrow now th
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What if the gods, the skilful to co
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The corslet brought, and gave it to
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The globe, and whose dread earthqua
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Not break, the settled temper of th
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[pg 421] Take thou this token of a
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Phyleus and Polydorus with the spea
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[pg 422] The prizes next are order'
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For who excels in all? Then let my
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And painful sweat from all their me
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Scarce did the chief the vigorous s
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[pg 424] He said; and, straining, h
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And now succeed the gifts ordain'd
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[pg 425] Pelides points the barrier
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Was clogg'd with slimy dung and min
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(A green old age unconscious of dec
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(A Thracian blade, distinct with st
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A mass of iron (an enormous round),
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High o'er the wondering crowds the
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And skilful Teucer: in the helm the
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[pg 428] A moment hung, and spread
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Pleased from the hero's lips his pr
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notwithstanding the remonstrances o
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[pg 430] The form so pleasing, and
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Spread o'er the sacred corse his go
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[pg 431] Is then the dire Achilles
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THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS. "If equal ho
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Their merits, nor their honours, ar
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From the bent angle sinks the leade
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And all the gods in shining synod r
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The mournful father, Iris shall pre
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[pg 434] But yield to ransom, and r
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IRIS ADVISES PRIAM TO OBTAIN THE BO
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[pg 435] For Hector's sake these wa
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"Unhappy consort of a king distress
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[pg 436] No—pent in this sad pala
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Content—By the same hand let me e
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Am I become my people's common show
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Mestor the brave, renown'd in ranks
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Last to the yoke the well-matched m
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Tower on the right of yon ethereal
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Jove heard his prayer, and from the
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Great Jove beheld him as he cross'd
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[pg 440] That circling Ilus' ancien
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These, who with endless hate thy ra
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The king, alarm'd: "Say what, and w
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"If then thou art of stern Pelides'
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Thus spoke to Priam the celestial g
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O'er pathless forests, or the roari
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Then swift alighted the celestial g
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[pg 443] Unseen by these, the king
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Expels him helpless from his peacef
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"Think of thy father, and this face
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From the high throne divine Achille
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[pg 445] He wanders, outcast both o
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These unavailing sorrows o'er the d
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[pg 446] To pass our outworks, or e
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Then, while the body on the car the
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[pg 447] In one sad day beheld the
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The care of heaven thy Hector has a
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[pg 448] "Permit me now, beloved of
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Remains unask'd; what time the rite
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Now gods and men the gifts of sleep
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Charged with the mournful load, to
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Thus wildly wailing, at the gates t
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An only son, once comfort of our pa
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[pg 451] Why gav'st thou not to me
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Yet glow'st thou fresh with every l
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The wretched source of all this mis
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[pg 452] Roll back the gather'd for
Page 2009 and 2010:
Such honours Ilion to her hero paid
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happened to Troy and the chief acto
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Ulysses also, after innumerable tro
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Footnotes 1. "What," says Archdeaco
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2. "Somewhat similar may be seen in
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"The voice," observes Heeren, "was
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5. 6. 7. rightly observes, "The aut
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10. that it is obviously a copy fro
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13. 14. 15. 16. A more probable rea
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21. And ask you, maid, of all the b
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25. It is, indeed not easy to calcu
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town of Stirling, in Scotland. No s
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27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Quarterly Revie
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37. 38. 39. 40. Sculptures, No. 123
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quence of friendship prevails more
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43. 44. 45. 46. 47. was being gradu
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48. 49. 50. —Cilla, a town of Tro
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51. 52. sic, while the arrows with
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54. 55. 56. Rather, "bright-eyed."
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58. 59. best to restrain his anger,
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62. 63. mortal, and Peleus, with gr
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66. with himself."—'Lectures on t
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68. That is, drawing back their nec
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71. 72. have been so struck with it
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Vulcan, attempting to relieve her,
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76. casional revolutions, its publi
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79. 80. This truly military sentime
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83. manifest terror (II. Xviii. 246
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85. 86. wards of 100,000 men. Nicho
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we are left to suppose something bo
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89. 90. heap upon him repulsive per
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93. to Bacchus, because he fed on v
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98. in Lydia, formed by the river C
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99. 100. the peculiar colour of its
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mind of a poet. Yet there is scarce
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troops to have rowed and navigated
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105. 106. 107. —"Paradise Lost,"
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109. 110. Lorenzo de Medici, in Ros
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114. appended these lines to his pi
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116. "His lab'ring heart with sudde
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120. 121. 122. 123. —Scaea's gate
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125. 126. 127. 128. —The martial
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131. 132. Cotyius, in the southern
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133. 134. "The plant she bruises wi
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137. 138. 139. —Sevenfold city, B
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144. 145. Gl' empie d' honor la fac
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148. 149. 150. 151. —Such stream,
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155. 156. verb, designating the oi
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159. introduced for the purpose of
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164. remarked, that the Homeric des
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167. In hopes to reconcile their he
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169. 170. 171. 172. 173. —Solymae
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175. bloodshed—which seems to hav
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177. 178. 179. 180. 181. Va tragl'
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184. 185. 186. "Sete o guerrieri, i
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187. 188. 189. peculiar crisis of i
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190. edict as the cause of their pr
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191. 192. which it was not attached
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193. 194. "Paradise Lost," iv. 496.
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198. The victims fall: to heav'n th
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201. respect with which Nestor addr
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203. 204. hance her fitness to be t
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208. 209. chieftains busied themsel
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211. notes to my prose translation,
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212. 213. Of infant frowardness the
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218. between the straps, to protect
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221. 222. "La terra in vece del not
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224. 225. So they around Ulysses pr
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227. 228. 229. —"Paradise Lost,"
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231. Is from his top torn, when a s
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235. 236. "Twice seven, the charmin
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238. "Underneath the violet, Crocus
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241. 242. Maker omnipotent, and tho
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deed connected with the comparative
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244. selves are less important, it
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to Juno the approaching death of Sa
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247. 248. of Troy was as little lik
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249. Is led, the funeral of his lor
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"In the wide circle of the shield w
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Were horrid wars depicted; grimly p
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257. The steers were moving; sturdy
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258. sporting dolphins, the fugitiv
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259. 260. —Ambrosia. "The blue-ey
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264. 265. "Ere Ilium and the Trojan
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268. 269. Sustain'd the vanquish'd,
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270. 271. the flood at the critical
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275. 276. "On the other side, Incen
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279. 280. cian camp by the valour o
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284. After so many funerals of thy
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287. 288. Firs, pines, and pitchtre
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Walking he strides, his head erecte
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293. 294. "Troilus is only once nam
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295. With rapid force they bear him
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did not often, especially in orator
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that evil inflicted on the author o
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