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131.<br />

132.<br />

Cotyius, in the southern part <strong>of</strong><br />

the chain <strong>of</strong> Ida.<br />

—Zelia, a town <strong>of</strong> Troas, at the<br />

foot <strong>of</strong> Ida.<br />

—Podaleirius and Machaon<br />

are the leeches <strong>of</strong> the Grecian<br />

army, highly prized and consulted<br />

by all the wounded<br />

chiefs. <strong>The</strong>ir medical renown<br />

was further prolonged in the<br />

subsequent poem <strong>of</strong> Arktinus,<br />

the Iliou Persis, wherein the<br />

one was represented as unrivalled<br />

in surgical operations,<br />

the other as sagacious in detecting<br />

and appreciating morbid<br />

symptoms. It was<br />

Podaleirius who first noticed<br />

the glaring eyes and disturbed<br />

deportment which preceded<br />

the suicide <strong>of</strong> Ajax.

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