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202.<br />

answered the purpose.' (Hallam,<br />

Middle Ages, ch. x. pt. 1,<br />

p. 189) This fact frees Achilles<br />

from the apparent charge <strong>of</strong><br />

sordidness. Plato, however,<br />

(De Rep. vi. 4), says, "We cannot<br />

commend Phoenix, the tutor<br />

<strong>of</strong> Achilles, as if he spoke<br />

correctly, when counselling<br />

him to accept <strong>of</strong> presents and<br />

assist the Greeks, but, without<br />

presents, not to desist from his<br />

wrath, nor again, should we<br />

commend Achilles himself, or<br />

approve <strong>of</strong> his being so covetous<br />

as to receive presents from<br />

Agamemnon," &c.<br />

It may be observed, that, brief<br />

as is the mention <strong>of</strong> Briseis in<br />

the <strong>Iliad</strong>, and small the part she<br />

plays—what little is said is<br />

pre-eminently calculated to en-

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