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struction <strong>of</strong> the rampart. This<br />

takes place in the seventh<br />

book. <strong>The</strong> reason ascribed for<br />

the glaring improbability that<br />

the Greeks should have left<br />

their camp and fleet unfortified<br />

during nine years, in the midst<br />

<strong>of</strong> a hostile country, is a purely<br />

poetical one: 'So long as<br />

Achilles fought, the terror <strong>of</strong><br />

his name sufficed to keep<br />

every foe at a distance.' <strong>The</strong><br />

disasters consequent on his secession<br />

first led to the necessity<br />

<strong>of</strong> other means <strong>of</strong> protection.<br />

Accordingly, in the battles<br />

previous to the eighth book, no<br />

allusion occurs to a rampart; in<br />

all those which follow it forms<br />

a prominent feature. Here,<br />

then, in the anomaly as in the<br />

propriety <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Iliad</strong>, the destiny<br />

<strong>of</strong> Achilles, or rather this

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