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293.<br />

294.<br />

"Troilus is only once named in<br />

the <strong>Iliad</strong>; he was mentioned<br />

also in the Cypriad but his<br />

youth, beauty, and untimely<br />

end made him an object <strong>of</strong><br />

great interest with the subsequent<br />

poets."—Grote, i, p. 399.<br />

Milton has rivalled this passage<br />

describing the descent <strong>of</strong><br />

Gabriel, "Paradise Lost," bk. v.<br />

266, seq.<br />

"Down thither prone<br />

in flight<br />

He speeds, and through<br />

the vast ethereal sky<br />

Sails between worlds and<br />

worlds, with steady wing,<br />

Now on the polar winds,<br />

then with quick fan<br />

Winnows the buxom air.<br />

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