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246.
from both speakers, that although
Sarpedon is said to be
fated to die, Jupiter might still,
if he pleased, save him, and
place him entirely out of the
reach of any such event, and
further, in the alternative, that
Jupiter himself would destroy
him by the hands of another."—Coleridge,
p. 156. seq.
—Thrice at the battlements.
"The art military of the Homeric
age is upon a level with the
state of navigation just described,
personal prowess decided
every thing; the night attack
and the ambuscade, although
much esteemed, were
never upon a large scale. The
chiefs fight in advance, and enact
almost as much as the
knights of romance. The siege