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164.<br />

remarked, that the <strong>Homer</strong>ic descriptions<br />

universally suppose<br />

copper, and not iron, to be employed<br />

for arms, both <strong>of</strong>fensive<br />

and defensive. By what process<br />

the copper was tempered<br />

and hardened, so as to serve<br />

the purpose <strong>of</strong> the warrior, we<br />

do not know; but the use <strong>of</strong><br />

iron for these objects belongs<br />

to a later age."—Grote, vol. ii.<br />

p. 142.<br />

—Oh impotent, &c. "In battle,<br />

quarter seems never to have<br />

been given, except with a view<br />

to the ransom <strong>of</strong> the prisoner.<br />

Agamemnon reproaches<br />

Menelaus with unmanly s<strong>of</strong>tness,<br />

when he is on the point <strong>of</strong><br />

sparing a fallen enemy, and<br />

himself puts the suppliant to

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