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to the poet to enumerate all the forces <strong>of</strong><br />

the Greeks and Trojans, and in a large<br />

catalogue.<br />

<strong>The</strong> time employed in this book consists<br />

not entirely <strong>of</strong> one day. <strong>The</strong> scene lies<br />

in the Grecian camp, and upon the seashore;<br />

towards the end it removes to<br />

Troy.<br />

Now pleasing sleep had seal'd each<br />

mortal eye,<br />

Stretch'd in the tents the Grecian<br />

leaders lie:<br />

<strong>The</strong> immortals slumber'd on their<br />

thrones above;<br />

All, but the ever-wakeful eyes <strong>of</strong><br />

Jove. 76<br />

To honour <strong>The</strong>tis' son he bends his<br />

care,<br />

And plunge the Greeks in all the<br />

woes <strong>of</strong> war:

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