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289.<br />

290.<br />

291.<br />

On the prevalence <strong>of</strong> this cruel<br />

custom amongst the northern<br />

nations, see Mallet, p. 213.<br />

—And calls the spirit. Such<br />

was the custom anciently, even<br />

at the Roman funerals.<br />

"Hail, O ye holy manes!<br />

hail again,<br />

Paternal ashes, now revived<br />

in vain."<br />

Dryden's Virgil, v. 106.<br />

Virgil, by making the boaster<br />

vanquished, has drawn a better<br />

moral from this episode than<br />

<strong>Homer</strong>. <strong>The</strong> following lines deserve<br />

comparison:—<br />

"<strong>The</strong> haughty Dares in<br />

the lists appears:

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