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89.<br />

90.<br />

heap upon him repulsive personal<br />

deformities, than by the<br />

chastisement <strong>of</strong> Odysseus he is<br />

lame, bald, crook-backed, <strong>of</strong><br />

misshapen head, and squinting<br />

vision."—Grote, vol. i. p. 97.<br />

According to Pausanias, both<br />

the sprig and the remains <strong>of</strong> the<br />

tree were exhibited in his time.<br />

<strong>The</strong> tragedians, Lucretius and<br />

others, adopted a different<br />

fable to account for the stoppage<br />

at Aulis, and seem to have<br />

found the sacrifice <strong>of</strong> Iphigena<br />

better suited to form the subject<br />

<strong>of</strong> a tragedy. Compare<br />

Dryden's "Æneid," vol. iii. sqq.<br />

—Full <strong>of</strong> his god, i.e., Apollo,<br />

filled with the prophetic spirit.<br />

"<strong>The</strong> god" would be more<br />

simple and emphatic.

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