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41.<br />

42.<br />

covers the victory, slays the enemy's<br />

chief, honours his friend<br />

with superb funeral rites, and<br />

exercises a cruel vengeance on<br />

the body <strong>of</strong> his destroyer; but<br />

finally appeased by the tears<br />

and prayers <strong>of</strong> the father <strong>of</strong> the<br />

slain warrior, restores to the<br />

old man the corpse <strong>of</strong> his son,<br />

which he buries with due<br />

solemnities.'—Coleridge, p.<br />

177, sqq.<br />

Vultures: Pope is more accurate<br />

than the poet he translates,<br />

for <strong>Homer</strong> writes "a prey to<br />

dogs and to all kinds <strong>of</strong> birds.<br />

But all kinds <strong>of</strong> birds are not<br />

carnivorous.<br />

—i.e. during the whole time <strong>of</strong><br />

their striving the will <strong>of</strong> Jove

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