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69.<br />

70.<br />

Restore their strength<br />

with meat, and cheer their<br />

souls with wine."<br />

Dryden's "Virgil," i. 293.<br />

—Crown'd, i.e. filled to the<br />

brim. <strong>The</strong> custom <strong>of</strong> adorning<br />

goblets with flowers was <strong>of</strong><br />

later date.<br />

—He spoke, &c. "When a<br />

friend inquired <strong>of</strong> Phidias what<br />

pattern he had formed his<br />

Olympian Jupiter, he is said to<br />

have answered by repeating the<br />

lines <strong>of</strong> the first <strong>Iliad</strong> in which<br />

the poet represents the majesty<br />

<strong>of</strong> the god in the most sublime<br />

terms; thereby signifying that<br />

the genius <strong>of</strong> <strong>Homer</strong> had inspired<br />

him with it. Those who<br />

beheld this statue are said to

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