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might never produce a poet capable of giving it renown and glory. At Phocoea, Homer was destined to experience another literary distress. One Thestorides, who aimed at the reputation of poetical genius, kept Homer in his own house, and allowed him a pittance, on condition of the verses of the poet passing in his name. Having collected sufficient poetry to be profitable, Thestorides, like some would-be-literary publishers, neglected the man whose brains he had sucked, and left him. At his departure, Homer is said to have observed: "O Thestorides, of the many things hidden from the knowledge of man, nothing is more unintelligible than the human heart." 8 Homer continued his career of difficulty and distress, until some Chian merchants, struck by the similarity of the verses they
heard him recite, acquainted him with the fact that Thestorides was pursuing a profitable livelihood by the recital of the very same poems. This at once determined him to set out for Chios. No vessel happened then to be setting sail thither, but he found one ready to Start for Erythrae, a town of Ionia, which faces that island, and he prevailed upon the seamen to allow him to accompany them. Having embarked, he invoked a favourable wind, and prayed that he might be able to expose the imposture of Thestorides, who, by his breach of hospitality, had drawn down the wrath of Jove the Hospitable. At Erythrae, Homer fortunately met with a person who had known him in Phocoea, by whose assistance he at length, after some difficulty, reached the little hamlet of Pithys. Here he met with an adventure, which we will continue in the words of
Page 1 and 2: The Project Gutenberg EBook of The
Page 3 and 4: with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alo
Page 5 and 6: BOOK XVI. BOOK XVII. BOOK XVIII. BO
Page 7 and 8: VENUS, DISGUISED, INVITING HELEN TO
Page 9 and 10: GREEK SHIELD. BACCHUS. AJAX DEFENDI
Page 11 and 12: [pg ix] INTRODUCTION. Scepticism is
Page 13 and 14: cures in the Church. History and tr
Page 15 and 16: in which critics will allow us to b
Page 17 and 18: all written tradition, concerning t
Page 19 and 20: theis to manage his household, and
Page 21 and 22: they reached Ithaca. Here Melesigen
Page 23: They avowed their willingness to su
Page 27 and 28: al habit. Whereupon Homer addressed
Page 29 and 30: [pg xv] Chandler, 12 "the most curi
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Page 45 and 46: [pg xx] "At what period," continues
Page 47 and 48: the narrowest reading class in Gree
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Page 63 and 64: of Peisistratus, while its historic
Page 65 and 66: next followed, as it aided the memo
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nobling impulses of the soul; and t
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crowd in one mighty vision, or reve
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eading an heroic poem we must trans
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his nation the mirror, in which the
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Can we contemplate that ancient mon
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cient wit, the author of which was
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can see, with as much reason to Hom
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of the contradictory versions alrea
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er, I might have brought a large am
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POPE'S PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOME
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Our author's work is a wild paradis
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wheel, by its own rapidity. Exact d
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for his imagination, and created a
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of story. If he has given a regular
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head, are by no means for their inv
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his own, that no painter could have
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thus, or the rest, In like manner i
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ion, that it was in this part Homer
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pecially, that he has scarce any co
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managed them) they are a sort of su
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that harmony which makes us confess
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Thus on whatever side we contemplat
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pours out his riches with a boundle
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make, commit something near extrava
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lent, as they are more contrary to
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fices then believed to belong to th
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of as they occur in the course of t
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make those accidents (such as the c
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lopped into form to give it a more
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aising and improving their author.
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at all. Simplicity is the mean betw
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antique cast. But certainly the use
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are introduced. For example, the ep
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they be tedious, the author is to a
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perhaps he endeavoured to strain th
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in. He seems to have had too much r
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attentively in comparison with Virg
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finite pleasure, the many friendly
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thor of the tragedy of "Heroic Love
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have experienced the candour and fr
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BOOK I. ARGUMENT. 40 THE CONTENTION
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[pg 002] the Æthiopians, at whose
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Extends the sceptre and the laurel
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Till time shall rifle every youthfu
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[pg 004] Till, safe at distance, to
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The pyres, thick-flaming, shot a di
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That sacred seer, whose comprehensi
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Not e'en the chief by whom our host
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To teach the Greeks to murmur at th
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The due reward of many a wellfought
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[pg 007] The man who suffers, loudl
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Inglorious slave to interest, ever
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[pg 008] Though mine the sweat and
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Go, threat thy earth-born Myrmidons
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[pg 009] Minerva swift descended fr
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"Forbear (the progeny of Jove repli
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And joins the sacred senate of the
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By this I swear:—when bleeding Gr
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Who thus with mild benevolence bega
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Do you, young warriors, hear my age
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[pg 012] Grant that the gods his ma
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A well-rigg'd ship for Chrysa's sac
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[pg 013] Pensive they walk along th
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Unskill'd to judge the future by th
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Sure to so short a race of glory bo
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The priest of Phoebus sought by gif
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But now he seized Briseis' heavenly
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The affrighted gods confess'd their
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Why have I borne thee with a mother
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Then down the steep she plunged fro
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Then near the altar of the darting
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The choicest morsels lay from every
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The parted ocean foams and roars be
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The thunderer sat; where old Olympu
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Thus Thetis spoke; but Jove in sile
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He spoke, and awful bends his sable
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The sacred counsels of almighty min
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That strives to learn what heaven r
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The feast disturb'd, with sorrow Vu
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Once in your cause I felt his match
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[pg 024] And Juno slumber'd on the
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[pg 025] BOOK II. ARGUMENT. THE TRI
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to the poet to enumerate all the fo
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And nodding Ilion waits the impendi
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[pg 027] To whom its safety a whole
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What scenes of grief, and numbers o
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[pg 028] A dream divine appear'd be
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Now, valiant chiefs! since heaven i
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[pg 029] Dusky they spread, a close
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Subjects all Argos, and controls th
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Must want a Trojan slave to pour th
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Before the blast the lofty harvests
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Haste, goddess, haste! the flying h
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Thus graced, attention and respect
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[pg 032] With words like these the
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And much he hated all, but most the
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[pg 033] Some captive fair, to bles
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The man who acts the least, upbraid
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While to his neighbour each express
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Till Troy's proud structures should
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Straight to the tree his sanguine s
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Thus spoke the prophet, thus the Fa
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[pg 036] And thunder rolling shook
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In arts of counsel, and in speaking
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[pg 037] With the huge shield each
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Then wise Ulysses in his rank was p
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The thighs, selected to the gods, d
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Blazed on her arm, and lighten'd al
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With rushing troops the plains are
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Jove o'er his eyes celestial glorie
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NEPTUNE. The hardy warriors whom Bo
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[pg 041] For flocks Erythrae, Gliss
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Where Anemoria's stately turrets sh
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The fair Caristos, and the Styrian
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Or close the embodied host in firm
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And Ægion, and Adrastus' ancient r
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While vainly fond, in fancy oft he
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[pg 044] Where the fat herds in ple
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Diores sprung from Amarynceus' line
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[pg 045] He led the warriors from t
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And saw their blooming warriors ear
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Next thirty galleys cleave the liqu
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Then, when the chief the Theban wal
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Where hills incircle Boebe's lowly
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Or where Ithome, rough with rocks,
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Where cold Dodona lifts her holy tr
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[pg 048] Their height, their colour
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And fires Typhoeus with redoubled b
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[pg 049] The foreign troops: this d
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(A mortal mixing with the queen of
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His fiery coursers thunder o'er the
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Thy groves of box, Cytorus! ever gr
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And proud Miletus, came the Carian
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[pg 051] BOOK III. ARGUMENT. THE DU
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Moves into ranks, and stretches o'e
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Now front to front the hostile armi
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Smit with a conscious sense, retire
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When Greece beheld thy painted canv
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Thy force, like steel, a temper'd h
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Then with his spear restrain'd the
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And different nations part in leagu
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[pg 055] Within the lines they drew
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So dreadful late, and furious for t
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[pg 056] Lean'd on the walls and ba
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But lift thy eyes, and say, what Gr
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[pg 057] "O bless'd Atrides! born t
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Then Helen thus: "Whom your discern
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Nor raised his head, nor stretch'd
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One bold on foot, and one renown'd
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Thus with a lasting league our toil
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Eternal Jove! and you bright orb th
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[pg 060] "Hear, mighty Jove! and he
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The lists of combat, and the ground
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[pg 061] Braced in and fitted to hi
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Destroy the aggressor, aid my right
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[pg Struggling he followed, while t
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The goddess softly shook her silken
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Struck with her presence, straight
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VENUS PRESENTING HELEN TO PARIS. Th
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Then, all dispersing, various tasks
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These softer moments let delights e
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Be therefore now the Spartan wealth
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Map, titled "Graeciae Antiquae".
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Menelaus, who is wounded, but cured
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[pg 068] Each danger wards, and con
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THE COUNCIL OF THE GODS. "Shall the
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That Troy, and Troy's whole race th
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At this the goddess rolled her radi
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And the proud Trojans first infring
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(In shape a mortal,) pass'd disguis
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'Twas form'd of horn, and smooth'd
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The gods forget not, nor thy guardi
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[pg 072] Then, with a sigh, that he
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Such mighty woes on perjured prince
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[pg 073] To whom the king: "My brot
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The shaft he drew, but left the hea
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[pg 074] Jove is with Greece, and l
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And clasp'd the warrior to his arme
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[pg 075] A cloud of heroes blacken'
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Then to the next the general bends
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Our great forefathers held this pru
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The solemn council best becomes the
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Whole troops before you labouring i
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(The warlike Sthenelus attends his
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Dared, and subdued before their hau
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The sons subdued, for Heaven was on
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Shields urged on shields, and men d
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The nations bleed, where'er her ste
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And shades eternal settle o'er his
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Brought forth the babe, their commo
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In act to throw; but cautious look'
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[pg 081] The great, the fierce Achi
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And quivering in his heaving bosom
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[pg 082] And counted heroes where h
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[pg 083] BOOK V. ARGUMENT. THE ACTS
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But Pallas now Tydides' soul inspir
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And first bold Phegeus cast his sou
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While we from interdicted fields re
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[pg 085] And everlasting shades his
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The hapless artist, while confused
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[pg 086] Which stain'd with sacred
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His bended bow against the chief he
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O give my lance to reach the Trojan
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With tenfold ardour now invades the
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Though now determined by Tydides' s
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Exploring Pandarus with careful eye
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And turns unseen the frustrate dart
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"Too late, O friend! my rashness I
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Practised alike to turn, to stop, t
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[pg 090] "O friend! two chiefs of f
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That both shall fall by one victori
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[pg 091] Pierced the tough orb, and
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O'er the fall'n trunk his ample shi
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His danger views with anguish and d
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The raging chief in chase of Venus
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The fainting chief, and wards the m
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And show'd the wound by fierce Tydi
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[pg 094] Then she: "This insult fro
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The shaft found entrance in his iro
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[pg 095] From fields of death when
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And, calling Venus, thus address'd
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[pg 096] So spoke the god who darts
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The god of battle issues on the pla
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Far distant hence I held my wide co
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On earth he leaps, his brazen armou
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Each Trojan bosom with new warmth h
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Dispersed and broken through the ru
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In dust Orsilochus and Crethon laid
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[pg 099] He thus advancing, Nestor'
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Meanwhile his temples feel a deadly
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[pg 100] And foam impervious 'cross
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His massy spear with matchless fury
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[pg 101] Sheathed in bright arms ea
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I make this present to the shades b
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Thy angry lance; which piercing to
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My helpless corpse, an unassisted p
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Stretch'd in their blood, lay gaspi
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[pg 103] Rich with immortal gold th
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Jove's cuirass blazes on her ample
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Commission'd in alternate watch the
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"Go! and the great Minerva be thy a
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[pg 105] Or foaming boars, the terr
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The goddess leaning o'er the bendin
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[pg 106] For Mars, the homicide, th
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DIOMED CASTING HIS SPEAR AT MARS. J
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Loud as the roar encountering armie
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All heaven beside reveres thy sover
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[pg 108] Inhuman discord is thy dir
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Juno and Pallas mount the bless'd a
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[pg 109] BOOK VI. ARGUMENT. THE EPI
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Dark showers of javelins fly from f
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By great Euryalus was Dresus slain,
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His headlong steeds, precipitate in
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Well hast thou known proud Troy's p
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Had not sage Helenus her state redr
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With offer'd vows, in Ilion's topmo
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Then thus aloud: "Ye dauntless Dard
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And meet a lance the fiercest heroe
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Approach, and enter the dark gates
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And the brave prince in numerous to
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A goat's rough body bore a lion's h
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[pg 115] (Fair e'en in heavenly eye
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Thus ever let us meet, with kind em
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[pg 116] We guard the friendship of
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In fifty chambers lodged: and rooms
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[pg 117] Inflaming wine, pernicious
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That pest of Troy, that ruin of our
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[pg 118] They fill the dome with su
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The steely point with golden ringle
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[pg 119] "Brother, 'tis just, (repl
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"Oh, generous brother! (if the guil
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Urge thou thy knight to march where
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Where late the mourning matrons mad
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[pg 121] Whom each soft charm and e
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And think'st thou not how wretched
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"By the same arm my seven brave bro
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Thrice our bold foes the fierce att
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Not all my brothers gasping on the
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And Hector hasted to relieve his ch
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[pg 124] She mingled with a smile a
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That stream'd at every look; then,
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[pg 125] And now, the warriors pass
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[pg 126]
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The battle renewing with double ard
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Both breathing slaughter, both reso
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Fierce she descends: Apollo marked
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At this agreed, the heavenly powers
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The thronging troops obscure the du
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But let my body, to my friends retu
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[pg 130] Go then! resolve to earth,
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Though bold and burning with desire
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[pg 131] How would he lift his aged
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Had given the vanquish'd, now the v
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And next his bulk gigantic Ajax rea
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Held out in order to the Grecian pe
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Grant thou, that Telamon may bear a
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As from a brazen tower, o'erlook'd
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To combat born, and bred amidst ala
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The blunted point against the buckl
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[pg 135] The sacred ministers of ea
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Let him demand the sanction of the
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He gave the Greek. The generous Gre
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When now the rage of hunger was rem
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So Greece to combat shall in safety
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But sound ungrateful in a warrior's
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And whose the conquest, mighty Jove
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[pg 138] The Greeks gave ear, but n
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Some search the plains, some fell t
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[pg 139] About the dying flames the
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Those radiant structures raised by
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[pg 140] With Bacchus' blessings ch
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[pg 141] GREEK AMPHORA—WINE VESSE
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Teucer, who is at length wounded by
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Back to the skies with shame he sha
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The all-mighty spoke, nor durst the
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Between the extended earth and star
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The sounding darts in iron tempests
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Nor each stern Ajax, thunderbolts o
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The glory of the Greeks, the Pylian
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Thus said the chief; and Nestor, sk
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The quivering steeds fell prostrate
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Not those who felt thy arm, the Dar
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Great Hector heard; he saw the flas
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And all your master's well-spent ca
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And see his Trojans to the shades d
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[pg 148] To Ajax and Achilles reach
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His vows, in bitterness of soul pre
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[pg The Atridae first, the Ajaces n
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The ranks grow thinner as his arrow
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Still aim'd at Hector have I bent m
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Headlong he falls: his sudden fall
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Or in the trench on heaps confusedl
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Now, in this moment of her last des
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When to grim Pluto's gloomy gates h
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[pg 152] The radiant robe her sacre
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JUNO AND MINERVA GOING TO ASSIST TH
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From Ida's top her golden wings dis
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She flew; and Juno thus her rage re
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[pg 154] THE HOURS TAKING THE HORSE
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Who shall the sovereign of the skie
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The goddess thus; and thus the god
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And drew behind the cloudy veil of
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[pg 156] Our steeds to forage, and
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The insidious foe the naked town in
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[pg 157] Shall crush the Greeks, an
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O'er the dark trees a yellower verd
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THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES.
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cil summoned to deliberate what mea
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[pg 160] Himself his orders to the
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And towers and armies humbles to th
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They gave thee not—a brave and vi
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Still first to act what you advise
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With Thracian wines recruit thy hon
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The king of men, on public counsels
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You wronged the man, by men and god
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Seven lovely captives of the Lesbia
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Yet more—three daughters in my co
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Who feels no mercy, and who hears n
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[pg 165] The monarch thus. The reve
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And large libations drench'd the sa
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Placed in his tent, attends the lof
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The brazen vase Automedon sustains,
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[pg 167] Not those more honour'd wh
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And must we, gods! our heads inglor
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[pg 168] If thou wilt yield to grea
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These instant shall be thine; and i
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Æpea fair, the pastures Hira yield
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What in my secret soul is understoo
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And sweat laborious days in dust an
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Slave as she was, my soul adored th
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[pg 171] The wealth he left for thi
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Not all the golden tides of wealth
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Content with just hereditary sway;
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Bid all your counsels, all your arm
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Attend the stern reply. Then Phoeni
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To shine in councils, and in camps
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They daily feast, with draughts of
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And Phoenix felt a father's joys in
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[pg 175] Due honours to the seed of
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This beast (when many a chief his t
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[pg 176] She beat the ground, and c
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The matrons ravish'd, the whole rac
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One should our interests and our pa
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And gifts can conquer every soul bu
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There cease his battle, and there f
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"Say what success? divine Laertes'
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With sorrow seized, in consternatio
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Then each to Heaven the due libatio
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and contriving all possible methods
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[pg 181] Sighs following sighs his
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So much had suffer'd and must suffe
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[pg 182] Such wondrous deeds as Hec
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This said, each parted to his sever
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No taste of sleep these heavy eyes
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Meges for strength, Oileus famed fo
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Assembling there, between the trenc
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He heard, return'd, and took his pa
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Ill fits thy age these toils to und
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[pg 185] And, couching close, repel
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In silent state the consistory crow
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What must not Greece to her deliver
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Then thus the king of men the conte
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The stars shine fainter on the ethe
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Thus sheathed in arms, the council
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Peace was his charge; received with
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[pg 188] Of yonder fleet a bold dis
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Even to the royal tent pursue my wa
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[pg 189] Moving this way, or hasten
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As when two skilful hounds the leve
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"O spare my youth, and for the brea
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And, tired with toils, neglect the
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Whose wives and infants, from the d
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In cruel chains, till your return r
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O speed our labours, and direct our
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[pg 192] Urge thou the slaughter, w
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Just then a deathful dream Minerva
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[pg 193] In haste he mounted, and h
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Ulysses stopp'd; to him Tydides bor
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[pg 194] Scarce had he spoke, when,
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Whose hostile king the brave Tydide
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[pg 195] They sit, rejoicing in her
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is pierced with an arrow by Paris,
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[pg 196] Even Ajax and Achilles hea
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And first he cased his manly legs a
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Ten zones of brass its ample brim s
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The squadrons spread their sable wi
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As sweating reapers in some wealthy
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On earth he turn'd his all-consider
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Atrides spoil'd, and left them on t
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Their bones he cracks, their reekin
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[pg 200] These words, attended with
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And the thick thunder beats the lab
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[pg 201] The path they take, and sp
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"Iris, with haste thy golden wings
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But when, or wounded by the spear o
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From sage Antenor and Theano sprung
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Till, grasp'd with force, he wrench
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[pg 203] And through his arm stood
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Sad mothers of unutterable woes!) S
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[pg 204] Lo, Jove himself declares
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As when a western whirlwind, charge
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And from his car the proud Thymbrae
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The far-famed hero of Paeonian stra
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And a short darkness shades his swi
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But pierced his foot, and nail'd it
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Steeps earth in purple, gluts the b
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[pg 207] And round him deep the ste
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He said, and forceful pierced his s
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[pg Ah, wretch! no father shall thy
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Great Ajax, like the god of war, at
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[pg 209] And lays Lysander bleeding
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And great Machaon to the ships conv
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O'er heaps of carcases, and hills o
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Then sourly slow the indignant beas
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Marks the dry dust, and thirsts for
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With pious care, great Ajax joins t
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The time is come, when yon despairi
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[pg 212] (Whom to his aged arms, a
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Meantime Patroclus, by Achilles sen
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[pg 213] Chief after chief the ragi
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Oppress'd, we arm'd; and now this c
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My sire denied in vain: on foot I f
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I seized his car, the van of battle
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How shall he grieve, when to the et
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Such gentle force the fiercest mind
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Weak was his pace, but dauntless wa
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[pg 216] Once taught Achilles, and
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HERCULES.
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The Trojans follow his counsel; and
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[pg 218] Then Ida's summits pour'd
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But this the gods in later times pe
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[pg 219] Just at the brink they nei
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But should they turn, and here oppr
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[pg 220] By orders strict the chari
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The moving legions speed their head
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[pg 221] This Polypoetes, great Per
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On every side the crackling trees t
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What man could doubt but Troy's vic
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And all her guardian gods, in deep
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Their martial fury in their wonder
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Then hear my words, nor may my word
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The leading sign, the irrevocable n
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[pg 224] With ardour follow where t
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Since not alike endued with force o
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[pg 225] The circling seas, alone a
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And shepherds gall him with an iron
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[pg 226] That when with wondering e
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And saw where Teucer with the Ajace
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Your strength, united, best may hel
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Prepared to labour in the unequal f
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Might stop the progress of his warl
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And through his buckler drove the t
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One foot, one inch, of the contende
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[pg 229] Shoots up, and all the ris
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And seems a match for more than mor
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The eight-and-twentieth day still c
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Whose waving woods o'erhung the dee
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His whirling wheels the glassy surf
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The heavens re-echo, and the shores
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There Greece has strength: but this
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Favouring descends, and wills to st
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While tears of rage stand burning i
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A prey to every savage of the wood:
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Hark! the gates burst, the brazen b
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[pg 235] The close compacted legion
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The first of gods, this day inspire
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[pg 236] And blest in bright Medesi
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And just had fastened on the dazzli
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[pg 237] And breathes destruction o
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Wills us to fall inglorious! Oh, my
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Which to pale man the wrath of heav
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That shed a lustre round the illumi
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Against his bosom beats his quiveri
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[pg 239] So Mars armipotent invades
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These can the rage of haughty Hecto
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[pg 240] Thus by despair, hope, rag
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For this, of Jove's superior might
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The great Idomeneus bestrides the d
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As when the mountain-oak, or poplar
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On his raised arm by two strong bra
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To wail his fate in death's eternal
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"Behold, Deiphobus! nor vaunt in va
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[pg 243] The bold Deiphobus approac
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And met the Trojan with a lowering
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[pg 244] Moves on in rank, and stre
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Though now unfit an active war to w
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The hollow helmet rings against the
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Along the chine, his eager javelin
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Disarm'd, he mingled in the Trojan
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But harmless bounded from the plate
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Pisander's spear fell shiver'd on t
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[pg 247] A princess raped transcend
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And the bold son of Pylaemenes slew
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[pg 248] Paris from far the moving
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With such a tide superior virtue sw
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(Young Ajax' brother, by a stolen e
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But skill'd from far the flying sha
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To some the powers of bloody war be
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Achilles, great Achilles, yet remai
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Some low in dust, (a mournful objec
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[pg 251] I scatter'd slaughter from
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The afflicted deeps tumultuous mix
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[pg The skill of war to us not idly
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Enormous boaster! doom'd to vaunt i
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[pg 253] GREEK EARRINGS. BOOK XIV.
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advantage of his slumber, and succo
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[pg 254] His wounded eyes the scene
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In lines advanced along the shelvin
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[pg 255] Not Jove himself, upon the
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Then, if impetuous Troy forbear the
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[pg Is this a general's voice that
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Lies whelm'd in ruins of the Theban
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Beyond the missile javelin's soundi
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And sent his voice before him as he
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Safe from access of each intruding
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[pg 258] Thus issuing radiant with
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Whelm'd under the huge mass of eart
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[pg 259] Whilst from Olympus please
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And his hush'd waves lie silent on
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[pg 260] Nor for the deed expect a
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SLEEP ESCAPING FROM THE WRATH OF JU
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[pg 261] Sat Sleep, in likeness of
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Which held so long that ancient pai
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[pg 262] Nor comelier Ceres' more m
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Not even the sun, who darts through
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[pg 263] To check a while the haugh
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Thus arm'd, not Hector shall our pr
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Pale mortals tremble, and confess t
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And cursed the lance that unavailin
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[pg 265] Clanks on the field, a dea
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And seals again, by fits, his swimm
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The soul of Ajax burn'd above the r
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He spake, and smiled severe, for we
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Drove through the neck, and hurl'd
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[pg 267] Ye all-beholding, all-reco
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BACCHUS.
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submissions; she is then sent to Ir
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[pg 269] His senses wandering to th
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Nor pull the unwilling vengeance on
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If truth inspires thy tongue, procl
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Nor one of all the heavenly host en
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Unmoved his mind, and unrestrain'd
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But dare not murmur, dare not vent
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Thus to the impetuous homicide she
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[pg 272] Receive, and execute his d
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Strives he with me, by whom his pow
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No vassal god, nor of his train, am
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"Great is the profit (thus the god
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Seeks his own seas, and trembles at
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Again his loved companions meet his
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Even I will make thy fiery coursers
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[pg 275] Soon as they see the furio
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Fierce as he is, let Hector learn t
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These drink the life of generous wa
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Though born of lawless love: from h
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The coursers fly; the smoking chari
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Exhort their men, with praises, thr
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Legions on legions from each side a
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He spoke; and, speaking, swifter th
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But, pierced by Telamon's huge lanc
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[pg 279] Dear as a parent, with a p
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Then, fired to vengeance, rush'd am
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[pg 280] Thy arms no less suffice t
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When happy nations bear the marks d
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How Hector calls, and Troy obeys hi
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His radiant arms triumphant Meges b
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But Hector's voice excites his kind
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[pg 282] With equal ardour Melanipp
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He said; and backward to the lines
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[pg 283] While stones and darts in
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He foams with wrath; beneath his gl
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[pg 284] Bursts as a wave that from
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The son redeem'd the honours of the
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With mutual honour, and with mutual
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But looks a moving tower above the
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And breathes fierce spirits in his
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Wounded, they wound; and seek each
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Of reverend dotards check'd our glo
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No aids, no bulwarks your retreat a
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[pg 289] While the black vessels sm
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Or may some meaner cause thy pity c
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[pg 290] "O man unpitying! if of ma
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"Patroclus! thy Achilles knows no f
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Go save the fleets, and conquer in
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Rage uncontroll'd through all the h
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And painful sweat from all his memb
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And smote his thigh, and thus aloud
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Buckles. The brave Automedon (an ho
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Grim as voracious wolves, that seek
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Eudorus next; whom Polymele the gay
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[pg 294] This stern remembrance to
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Ranks wedged in ranks; of arms a st
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But Peleus' son; and Peleus' son to
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Oh! be his guard thy providential c
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[pg 296] Thus from the tents the fe
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Unbless'd Protesilaus to Ilion's sh
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Forced from the navy, yet the fight
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His arm falls spouting on the dust
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Full on the juncture of the neck an
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But still at Hector godlike Ajax ai
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Fierce on the rear, with shouts Pat
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[pg 299] From their deep beds he bi
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And with unmanly tremblings shook t
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With this reproach his flying host
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Say, shall I snatch him from impend
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[pg 301] She said: the cloud-compel
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The starting coursers, and restrain
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[pg 302] The trembling limbs, and s
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The reeking fibres clinging to the
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For thou, though distant, canst res
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Stretch'd by Patroclus' arm on yond
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And send the living Lycians to the
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[pg 304] And, like an eagle darting
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An iron circle round the carcase gr
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[pg 305] Vain are thy vaunts; succe
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And stuck with darts by warring her
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Then Hector's mind he fills with di
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To the soft arms of silent Sleep an
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[pg 307] Of matchless swiftness, bu
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Epistor, Melanippus, bite the groun
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[pg 308] (Thy brother, Hecuba! from
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His front, brows, eyes, one undisti
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Stern Hector fastens on the warrior
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While on each host with equal tempe
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Long used, untouch'd, in fighting f
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Thus, by an arm divine, and mortal
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The fancied scenes of Ilion wrapt i
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[pg 311] The gods inspire it, and i
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But swift Automedon with loosen'd r
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On the cold earth divine Patroclus
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Nor panther braves his spotted foe
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Let heaven decide our fortune, fame
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[pg 314] While the fierce Spartan t
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Thus having spoke, Apollo wing'd hi
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[pg 315] Did but the voice of Ajax
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The body to Achilles to restore Dem
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On Hector frowning, thus his flight
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The sword for glory, and his countr
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The strong he withers, and confound
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Now blazing in the immortal arms he
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No more officious, with endearing c
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[pg 318] Tor this, our wealth, our
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On thee, on me, perhaps, my friend,
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[pg 319] Whole Troy embodied rush'd
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The first attack the Grecians scarc
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[pg 320] Lamented youth! in life's
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Struck at the sight, recede the Tro
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[pg 321] "Oh lasting shame! to our
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Close in their ranks commands to fi
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But death and darkness o'er the car
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The mangled body bathed in sweat an
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First perish all, ere haughty Troy
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Circled their arched necks, and wav
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The field, and spread her slaughter
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No Greek like him the heavenly stee
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Each hopes the conquest of the loft
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[pg 325] Which pass'd the shield of
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Poor as it is, some offering to thy
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[pg 326] To thee the greatest in wh
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With riches honour'd, and with cour
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The affrighted hills from their fou
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Had graced the triumphs of his Troj
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What human strength and prudence ca
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"Now, now, Atrides! cast around thy
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So parts the chief; from rank to ra
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[pg 329] From his fair eyes the tea
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Myself, and my bold brother will su
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[pg 330] To whelm some city under w
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High on poised pinions, threats the
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[pg 331] BOOK XVIII. ARGUMENT. THE
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And now it rises, now it sinks by t
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Dead is Patroclus! For his corse th
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The circling Nereids with their mis
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How wretched, were I mortal, were m
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And thus the silver-footed dame beg
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[pg 334] New woes, new sorrows, sha
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Wrath and revenge from men and gods
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[pg 335] Soon shall the sanguine to
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The sea-green sisters plunge beneat
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But check'd, he turns; repuls'd, at
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Thy friend's disgrace, thy own eter
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[pg 337] Shall take new courage, an
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Struck from the walls, the echoes f
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Meantime, unwearied with his heaven
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JUNO COMMANDING THE SUN TO SET. "In
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[pg 339] Nor what I tremble but to
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And proud Maeonia wastes the fruits
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The worst advice, the better to ref
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One fate the warrior and the friend
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Beneath the vase, and climbs around
Page 1543:
Say, shall not I one nation's fate
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That placed on living wheels of mas
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THETIS AND EURYNOME RECEIVING THE I
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[pg 343] While I the labours of the
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And Vulcan's joy and duty to obey."
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To Troy I sent him! but his native
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As I shall forge most envied arms,
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And godlike labours on the surface
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The subject of debate, a townsman s
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Gold were the gods, their radiant g
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[pg 347] With new-made wounds; anot
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And last the children, in whose arm
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[pg 348] Here herds of oxen march,
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The youths all graceful in the glos
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[pg 349] The greaves of ductile tin
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Patroclus. The hero obstinately ref
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[pg 350] Then drops the radiant bur
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Then uncontroll'd in boundless war
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Lame with their wounds, and leaning
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I deem, their mightiest, when this
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[pg 352] But prints her lofty foots
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And stop the babe, just issuing to
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[pg 353] Whate'er Ulysses promised
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Can last a hero through a single da
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[pg 354] Thy words give joy, and wi
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And copious banquets, glad your wea
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Greece honours not with solemn fast
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A row of six fair tripods then succ
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The black-eyed maid inviolate remov
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[pg 356] The foaming coursers to th
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The first, the dearest partner of h
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[pg 357] Thy sweet society, thy win
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His hastening soul, and sinks him t
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And like a deluge pour'd upon the p
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The brazen sword a various baldric
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Ponderous and huge, which not a Gre
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Be swift, be mindful of the load ye
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Then ceased for ever, by the Furies
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The gods to council in the starry h
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And death stands ardent on the edge
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The vessels tremble as the gods ali
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[pg 362] With voice divine, from Il
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[pg 363] THE GODS DESCENDING TO BAT
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Æneas was the first who dared to s
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Were God my aid, this arm should ch
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Hereafter let him fall, as Fates de
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In elder times to guard Alcides mad
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And, so he moved, his javelin flame
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Sons he has many; those thy pride m
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[pg 366] With mean reproaches, and
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Conceal'd his godhead in a flowing
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From great Assaracus sprang Capys,
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(To meet the thundering lance) his
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[pg 368] Draws his broad blade, and
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And sons succeeding sons the lastin
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Till at the battle's utmost verge t
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Great as he is, our arms he scarce
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[pg 370] But shrinks and shudders w
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Beneath the shades of Tmolus, crown
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[pg 371] The lance arrests him: an
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Thus sadly slain the unhappy Polydo
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Then parts the lance: but Pallas' h
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And for the soul an ample passage m
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The purple death comes floating o'e
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So sweeps the hero through the wast
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CENTAUR.
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Vulcan, by the instigation of Juno,
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While fast behind them runs the bla
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(Late their proud ornaments, but no
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[pg 376] As trembling, panting, fro
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One hand embraced them close, one s
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[pg 377] Some demon urges! 'tis my
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Die then,"—He said; and as the wo
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Thus he rewards you, with this bitt
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Whose son encounters our resistless
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And on his foe with double fury fle
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[pg 379] The eternal ocean, from wh
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'Tis not on me thy rage should heap
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[pg 380] He spoke in vain—The chi
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Then blacken'd the wild waves: the
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[pg Still flies Achilles, but befor
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Oh! had I died in fields of battle
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And Hector's blood shall smoke upon
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With broken rocks, and with a load
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[pg 383] Increased with gore, and s
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At once consumes the dead, and drie
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[pg 384] He ceased; wide conflagrat
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Recall the flame, nor in a mortal c
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Which bears Jove's thunder on its d
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Jove's Cyprian daughter, stooping o
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The god of ocean dares the god of l
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[pg 386] Incensed, we heavenward fl
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How vain that martial pomp, and dre
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[pg 387] The scattering arrows, rat
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Shook with her sighs, and panted on
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High on a turret hoary Priam stands
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And gasping, panting, fainting, lab
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While I decline to yonder path, tha
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[pg 389] Untaught to fear or fly, h
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Smote on his knee; the hollow cuish
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[pg 390] And sudden joy confused, a
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Achilles drags the dead body at his
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[pg 391] With mortal speed a godhea
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Not half so dreadful rises to the s
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[pg 392] How many valiant sons I la
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Yet cursed with sense! a wretch, wh
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[pg And pour to dogs the life-blood
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So they, while down their cheeks th
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On my rash courage charge the chanc
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To die, or triumph, that, determine
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(A wider compass,) smoke along the
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And with them turns the raised spec
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No gods indignant blame their parti
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[pg 396] Their sinking limbs the fa
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"O loved of Jove! this day our labo
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[pg Dearer than all that own a brot
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Yet on the verge of battle let us s
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No further subterfuge, no further c
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But first, try thou my arm; and may
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And, all collected, on Achilles fle
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Of speech, unhappy! from thy dying
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"No, wretch accursed! relentless he
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He ceased. The Fates suppress'd his
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Since now at length the powerful wi
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[pg 401] With thongs inserted throu
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O'er the proud citadel at length sh
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[pg 402] O had thy gentle spirit pa
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Not e'en his stay without the Scaea
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[pg 403] "Ah follow me! (she cried)
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Her hair's fair ornaments, the brai
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[pg 404] From different parents, di
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Nor reach the goblet, nor divide th
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Useless to thee, from this accursed
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urial; the next morning the soldier
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[pg 406] "Not yet, my brave compani
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And twelve sad victims, of the Troj
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[pg 407] They urged in vain; the ch
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Along the grass his languid members
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No more our thoughts to those we lo
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And hears a feeble, lamentable cry.
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[pg 409] First march the heavy mule
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All mount their chariots, combatant
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[pg 410] Where to the day thy silve
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High on the top the manly corse the
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[pg 411] So spake he, threatening:
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To gentle Zephyr and the Boreal bla
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Swift as the word she vanish'd from
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Then sank the blaze, the pile no lo
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[pg 413] Till I shall follow to the
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Resplendent brass, and more resplen
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Lost is Patroclus now, that wont to
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Experienced Nestor gives his son th
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While with sure skill, though with
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Lest through incaution failing, tho
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At once the coursers from the barri
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[pg 416] Full on his neck he feels
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The next, though distant, Menelaus
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[pg 417] Still edging near, and bea
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With fainting knees shall labour in
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And, turn'd too short, he tumbled o
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Will learn their rashness, when the
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The well-plied whip is hung athwart
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"Behold! the man whose matchless ar
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This, who but touches, warriors! is
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[pg 420] So not a leader shall our
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So spoke Antilochus; and at the wor
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He said; and pleased his passion to
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Too true it is, deserted of my stre
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Go thou, my son! by generous friend
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And whom the Greeks supreme by conq
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[pg 423] In Theban games the nobles
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Whose arms support him, reeling thr
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The humid sweat from every pore des
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Still breathing strife, and unsubdu
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It stands the prize of swiftness in
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To him they give their wishes, hear
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She urged her favourite on the rapi
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[pg 426] Next these a buckler, spea
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Opposed in arms not long they idly
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[pg 427] If he be one enrich'd with
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He next invites the twanging bow to
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And Merion eager meditates the woun
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Here too great Merion hopes the nob
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[pg 429] BOOK XXIV. ARGUMENT. THE R
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terment. The scene is partly in Ach
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The ruddy morning rises o'er the wa
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HECTOR'S BODY AT THE CAR OF ACHILLE
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Awhile they sorrow, then dismiss th
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[pg 432] His birth deriving from a
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Her furious son from Priam to recei
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[pg Sad object as I am for heavenly
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Nine days are past since all the co
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"How long, unhappy! shall thy sorro
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Except, to place the dead with dece
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(Sad scene of woe!) his face his wr
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Thy age, nor touch one venerable ha
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And where the prudence now that awe
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And fell a hero in his country's ri
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(The pledge of treaties once with f
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[pg 437] The sorrowing friends his
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Forgive his anger, and produce the
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[pg 438] And thus consigns it to th
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On the mid pavement pours the rosy
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[pg 439] The brazen portal in his p
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O'er the wide earth, and o'er the b
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The afflicted monarch shiver'd with
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Hail, and be bless'd! For scarce of
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[pg 441] Forbade assistance, and en
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Untouch'd by worms, untainted by th
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[pg 442] To whom the latent god: "O
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Unseen, through all the hostile cam
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Whatever pity that stern heart can
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Thus stood the attendants stupid wi
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[pg 444] Nineteen one mother bore
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The old man's cheek he gently turn'
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Rise, then: let reason mitigate you
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Of his weak age, to live the curse
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A weak old man to see the light and
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Next, heap'd on high, the numerous
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To whom, composed, the godlike chie
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The gods themselves, at length rele
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Which round the board Automedon bes
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Forth, by the flaming lights, they
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The next, to raise his monument be
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[pg 449] To spare thy age; and offe
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To hail your hero glorious from the
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[pg 450] With plaintive sighs, and
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The sad companion of thy mother's w
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"O thou, the best, the dearest to m
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Now twice ten years (unhappy years)
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Twelve days, nor foes nor secret am
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The snowy bones his friends and bro
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[pg 453] CONCLUDING NOTE. We have n
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Helen, after the death of Paris, ma
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conclusion, I desire to dedicate it
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thus enlists their affections in be
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3. thai. Vit. Hom. in Schweigh Hero
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4. "Should it not be, since my arri
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8. 9. phoraes oi gar Kumaioi tous t
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11. 12. It was at Bolissus, and in
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17. 18. 19. 20. Compare Sir E. L. B
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22. 23. 24. See Tatian, quoted in F
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of Tasso, not only to recite it con
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26. bined may attain in a simpler a
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32. 33. 34. 35. 36. "The first book
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the army, which for nine years has
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41. 42. covers the victory, slays t
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harassed that territory. Strabo, ho
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poems, all deaths from unforeseen o
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53. Grote, vol. ii. p 92. "It is an
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57. which resembles that of the ant
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60. 61. ander, in Clem. Alex. vii.
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64. 65. Quintus Calaber goes still
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67. must have been one of the most
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69. 70. Restore their strength with
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73. 74. pennyworth of nuts is sold.
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75. From heaven, they fabled, throw
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77. 78. All but the unsleeping eyes
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81. 82. "As bees in spring-time, wh
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84. Then pledged the chief in a cap
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87. Heeren, "Ancient Greece," ch. v
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88. of what precedes, and do not co
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91. 92. Those critics who have main
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94. 95. 96. 97. —Tydeus' son, i.e
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source of the river to the highest
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101. Tu 'l sai; ma di tant' opra a
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102. scattered over the thousands w
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103. 104. comparing it with the all
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108. ies—they yet acknowledged in
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111. 112. 113. Dryden's Virgil, ii.
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115. stantly reappearing in the anc
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117. 118. 119. Merrick's "Tryphiodo
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124. "Thus having said, she turn'd
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129. 130. So Apuleius, l. c. speaks
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"Galen appears uncertain whether As
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135. 136. Then when I made the fore
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140. 141. 142. 143. His stature rea
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146. 147. "Paradise Lost," xi. 411.
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152. 153. 154. wound she had receiv
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157. 158. Unbarr'd the gates of lig
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160. 161. 162. 163. —Paeon seems
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165. 166. the sword."—Thirlwall,
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168. this task is not, as a general
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174. "The fifty nuptial beds, (such
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176. seems indeed probable, from th
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182. 183. helmet, in which they wer
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struction of the rampart. This take
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narrative, is the decree issued by
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seem to imply that he considered it
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Till Troy descending fix'd the doub
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195. 196. 197. —Ægae, Helice. Bo
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199. 200. And even the lowly valley
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202. answered the purpose.' (Hallam
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205. 206. 207. people, the Dolopes
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210. 181), was a sufficient reason
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From thy sweet lips the half articu
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214. 215. 216. 217. might be addres
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219. 220. "There's one did laugh in
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223. "Circled with foes as when a p
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226. Below the wall's foundation dr
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230. molgian," i.e. "milking their
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232. 233. 234. renders many notes u
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237. entage, and too ancient to all
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239. 240. "Paradise Lost," vi. 335,
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243. the Chersonese, near the city
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tracts little from the dignity of t
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245. —The destinies ordain.—"In
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246. from both speakers, that altho
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And, sunk in sorrow, hangs his lang
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250. 251. 252. 253. This is connect
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254. 255. The realms of Tethys, whi
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256. And Gorgons, whose long locks
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the imagery differs in little more
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the Grecian Mythology; it explains,
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261. 262. 263. "Swift from his thro
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266. 267. —The future father. "Æ
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of the Iliad, he has brought the ri
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272. 273. 274. —Beneath a caldron
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277. 278. the dignity of a princess
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281. 282. 283. —Thrice in order l
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285. 286. So Milton:— Dryden. "So
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289. 290. 291. On the prevalence of
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292. Presuming of his force, with s
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* * * * At once on th' eastern clif
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Coleridge are well worth reading:
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296. the earlier parts of the Iliad
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297. 298. yielding up the body of H
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299. feeling and softness of tone w
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nor familiar; not contemptuous, yet
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