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[pg 127] BOOK VII. ARGUMENT IRIS. THE SINGLE COMBAT OF HECTOR AND AJAX.
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The
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with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alo
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BOOK XVI. BOOK XVII. BOOK XVIII. BO
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VENUS, DISGUISED, INVITING HELEN TO
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GREEK SHIELD. BACCHUS. AJAX DEFENDI
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[pg ix] INTRODUCTION. Scepticism is
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cures in the Church. History and tr
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in which critics will allow us to b
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all written tradition, concerning t
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theis to manage his household, and
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they reached Ithaca. Here Melesigen
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They avowed their willingness to su
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heard him recite, acquainted him wi
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al habit. Whereupon Homer addressed
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[pg xv] Chandler, 12 "the most curi
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ecognized by a Samian, who had met
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is involved. With no less truth and
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orial office compels us to give som
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Are things which Kuster, Burmann, W
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to deal, and with the following bol
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and his associates, in reference to
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ler difficulty by running into a gr
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[pg xx] "At what period," continues
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the narrowest reading class in Gree
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still comparatively few, might have
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meric age, however the irregular us
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later, and it may fairly be suspect
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Olysseid. Could France have given b
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mann's 28 modification of his theor
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period of its first compilation." T
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ternal as external, enable us to ju
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of Peisistratus, while its historic
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next followed, as it aided the memo
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"While employed on the wild legend
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ship of the Homeric poems. To deny
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the history of a thousand minute po
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the capabilities of the same gentle
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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
Page 589 and 590: And meet a lance the fiercest heroe
Page 591 and 592: Approach, and enter the dark gates
Page 593 and 594: And the brave prince in numerous to
Page 595 and 596: A goat's rough body bore a lion's h
Page 597 and 598: [pg 115] (Fair e'en in heavenly eye
Page 599 and 600: Thus ever let us meet, with kind em
Page 601 and 602: [pg 116] We guard the friendship of
Page 603 and 604: In fifty chambers lodged: and rooms
Page 605 and 606: [pg 117] Inflaming wine, pernicious
Page 607 and 608: That pest of Troy, that ruin of our
Page 609 and 610: [pg 118] They fill the dome with su
Page 611 and 612: The steely point with golden ringle
Page 613 and 614: [pg 119] "Brother, 'tis just, (repl
Page 615 and 616: "Oh, generous brother! (if the guil
Page 617 and 618: Urge thou thy knight to march where
Page 619 and 620: Where late the mourning matrons mad
Page 621 and 622: [pg 121] Whom each soft charm and e
Page 623 and 624: And think'st thou not how wretched
Page 625 and 626: "By the same arm my seven brave bro
Page 627 and 628: Thrice our bold foes the fierce att
Page 629 and 630: Not all my brothers gasping on the
Page 631 and 632: And Hector hasted to relieve his ch
Page 633 and 634: [pg 124] She mingled with a smile a
Page 635 and 636: That stream'd at every look; then,
Page 637 and 638: [pg 125] And now, the warriors pass
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Page 643 and 644: palisades. Neptune testifies his je
Page 645 and 646: [pg 128] Then sunk Eioneus to the s
Page 647 and 648: War soon shall kindle, and great Il
Page 649 and 650: [pg 129] He said: the warrior heard
Page 651 and 652: What my soul prompts, and what some
Page 653 and 654: The stone shall tell your vanquish'
Page 655 and 656: Even he their chief, great Agamemno
Page 657 and 658: Attend on Greece, and all the Greci
Page 659 and 660: There Ereuthalion braved us in the
Page 661 and 662: What then I was, O were your Nestor
Page 663 and 664: [pg 132] The lots produced, each he
Page 665 and 666: Said I in secret? No, your vows dec
Page 667 and 668: [pg 133] Grimly he smiled; earth tr
Page 669 and 670: Let him, unactive on the sea-beat s
Page 671 and 672: [pg 134] Till in the seventh it fix
Page 673 and 674: Applied each nerve, and swinging ro
Page 675 and 676: HECTOR AND AJAX SEPARATED BY THE HE
Page 677 and 678: And heaven enjoins it, be the night
Page 679 and 680: [pg 136] But Ajax, glorying in his
Page 681 and 682: While we to flames our slaughter'd
Page 683 and 684: [pg 137] And I but move what every
Page 685 and 686: His godlike aspect deep attention d
Page 687 and 688: What Paris, author of the war, decl
Page 689 and 690: For what remains; let funeral flame
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And, laid along their cars, deplore
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Amazed beheld the wondrous works of
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But yon proud work no future age sh
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But Jove averse the signs of wrath
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BOOK VIII. ARGUMENT. THE SECOND BAT
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[pg 142] When Jove convened the sen
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Join all, and try the omnipotence o
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[pg 143] Or all must perish in the
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Now had the Grecians snatch'd a sho
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[pg 144] With equal hand: in these
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When dreadful Hector, thundering th
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[pg 145] Then haste, ascend my seat
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The steeds fly back: he falls, and
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[pg 146] The great will glory to su
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In seats of council and the sumptuo
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[pg 147] And pass victorious o'er t
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That heard, deep anguish stung Satu
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With close-ranged chariots, and wit
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Was ever king like me, like me oppr
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Tydides first, of all the Grecian f
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Thus Ajax guards his brother in the
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Whatever treasures Greece for me de
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[pg 150] As full-blown poppies, ove
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There, where the juncture knits the
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[pg 151] Before the ships a despera
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"Long since had Hector stain'd thes
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Then, goddess! say, shall Hector gl
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Heaven's gates spontaneous open to
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[pg 153] Their car in fragments, sc
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Your horses crush'd beneath the whe
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The Hours unloosed them, panting as
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The eternal Thunderer sat, enthrone
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[pg 155] The prudent goddess yet he
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For such is fate, nor canst thou tu
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The point was brass, refulgent to b
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Some hostile wound let every dart b
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Then, then shall Hector and Tydides
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Whose wrath hung heavy o'er the Tro
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[pg 158] And shoot a shady lustre o
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[pg 159] BOOK IX. ARGUMENT. THE EMB
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While fear, pale comrade of inglori
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"Ye sons of Greece! partake your le
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If I oppose thee, prince! thy wrath
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[pg 161] Myself, and Sthenelus, wil
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"Cursed is the man, and void of law
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[pg 162] Swift through the gates th
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With thee my cares begin, with thee
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[pg 163] If gifts immense his might
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Give to our arms proud Ilion's host
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[pg 164] And rich Antheia with her
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PLUTO.
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Pray in deep silence, 205 and with
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[pg 166] They pour forth vows, thei
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Welcome, though Greeks! for not as
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Himself, opposed to Ulysses full in
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Hear how with shouts their conquest
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His parting son, these accents were
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The prizes purchased by their winge
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And with Orestes' self divide his c
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[pg 169] Yet some redress to suppli
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The wretch and hero find their priz
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[pg 170] My spoil alone his greedy
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There was a time ('twas when for Gr
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Though shameless as he is, to face
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[pg 172] 'Tis he that offers, and I
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And each alternate, life or fame, p
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GREEK GALLEY. The son of Peleus cea
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[pg 173] PROSERPINE. "Divine Achill
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My sire with curses loads my hated
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[pg 174] By love to thee his bounti
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Constant they follow, where injusti
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A great example drawn from times of
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And matchless Idas, more than man i
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Half pasture green, and half with v
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And asks no honours from a mortal's
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[pg 177] "Hence let us go—why was
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Well hast thou spoke; but at the ty
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[pg 178] Fair Diomede of the Lesbia
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Us too he bids our oars and sails e
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[pg 179] This night, let due repast
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[pg 180] BOOK X. ARGUMENT. THE NIGH
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All night the chiefs before their v
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A thousand cares his labouring brea
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Such bold exploits uncommon courage
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Whose son with Merion, o'er the wat
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While others sleep, thus range the
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[pg 183] So near, and favour'd by t
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Claims all our hearts, and urges al
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The slumbering chief, and in these
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Each step of passing feet increased
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[pg 187] A bow and quiver, with bri
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Who all my motions, all my toils su
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(Five girls beside the reverend her
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(As Dolon pass'd,) behind a heap of
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A faithful kinsman, and instructive
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Old Nestor first perceived the appr
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Old as I am, to age I scorn to yiel
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The scene lies in the field near th
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THE DESCENT OF DISCORD. The king of
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[pg 197] Whose imitated scales agai
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That blaze to heaven, and lighten a
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[pg 198] The brother-warriors of An
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And drinks large slaughter at her s
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[pg 199] And claim a respite from t
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And captive led, with pliant osiers
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And slew the children for the fathe
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His brother leap'd to earth; but, a
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Breaking their ranks, and crushing
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Not with less fury stem Atrides fle
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And sacred night her awful shade ex
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[pg 202] And wakes anew the dying f
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With twelve black ships he reach'd
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On whom his passion, lavish of his
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The social shades the same dark jou
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Clouds from their nostrils the fier
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On the black body of the foe he pou
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His soul rekindled, and awaked his
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[pg 205] In deep prophetic arts the
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"Mark how this way yon bending squa
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[pg 206] Whole hecatombs of Trojan
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Thou woman-warrior with the curling
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"What further subterfuge, what hope
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Charops, the son of Hippasus, was n
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Forced he recedes, and loudly calls
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The wolves, though hungry, scour di
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And deep Scamander swells with heap
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Before great Ajax see the mingled t
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[pg 210] But partial Jove, espousin
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On Ajax thus a weight of Trojans hu
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[pg 211] Yet thus retreating, his a
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His friend Machaon singled from the
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Through intermingled ships and tent
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In sculptured gold, two turtles see
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"Can then the sons of Greece (the s
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As many goats, as many lowing kine:
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(Young as they were) the vengeful s
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[pg 214] To the blue monarch of the
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Where o'er the vales the Olenian ro
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[pg 215] We then explained the caus
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This touch'd his generous heart, an
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Eurypylus replies: "No more, my fri
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He said, and in his arms upheld the
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Nor long the trench or lofty walls
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And to the sea the floating bulwark
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Fierce of his might, a boar or lion
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"O thou, bold leader of the Trojan
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And this (if Jove consent) her fata
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In arms with these the mighty Asius
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And great Idomeneus shall boast thy
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And OEnomaus and Thoon close the re
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The dreary winter on his frozen win
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Then sudden waved his unresisted sw
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[pg 223] Then first Polydamas the s
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More woes shall follow, and more he
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None fears it more, as none promote
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And heaps on heaps the smoky ruins
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And now the stones descend in heavi
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In arms he shines, conspicuous from
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Where Xanthus' streams enrich the L
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And give to fame what we to nature
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The best and bravest of the hostile
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Full on the Lycian's helmet thunder
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[pg 228] His brazen armour rings ag
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Unite, and soon that hostile fleet
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Till poised aloft, the resting beam
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With iron bars and brazen hinges st
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GREEK ALTAR.
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the other Greeks who had retired to
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This ready arm, unthinking, shakes
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[pg 234] I trusted in the gods, and
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Prevent this evil, and your country
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A chosen phalanx, firm, resolved as
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There stops—so Hector. Their whol
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And soils its verdant tresses on th
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As two grim lions bear across the l
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Who ruled where Calydon's white roc
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And urge thy soul to rival acts wit
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And every art of dangerous war thy
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And their bright arms shot horror o
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And live with glory, or with glory
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The sire of earth and heaven, by Th
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From high Cabesus' distant walls he
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[pg 241] He spoke, and dragg'd the
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His fate he stands; nor shuns the l
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Lord of a host, o'er all my host I
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To tender pity all his manly mind;
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Their lifted bucklers cast a dreadf
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The Cretan saw, and shunn'd the bra
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[pg 245] Meanwhile fresh slaughter
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In arms intrepid, with the first he
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[pg 246] Next brave Deipyrus in dus
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But good Agenor gently from the wou
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Shorn from the crest. Atrides waved
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A godless crew, abandon'd and unjus
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And, driving down, the swelling bla
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By arms abroad, or slow disease at
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The proud Iaonians with their sweep
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[pg 250] How many Trojans yield, di
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Shakes his white plumes that to the
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The force of Helenus, dispensing fa
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These words the hero's angry mind a
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The wings of falcons for thy flying
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He said; and like a lion stalk'd al
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Nestor, sitting at the table with M
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Hark! how the shouts divide, and ho
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To join the host, or to the general
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Shall then proud Hector see his boa
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And that the rampart, late our sure
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And taught to conquer, or to fall i
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I force not Greece to quit this hat
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Part on her head in shining ringlet
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"Then grant me (said the queen) tho
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O power of slumbers! hear, and favo
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Me chief he sought, and from the re
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The youngest Grace, Pasithae the di
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Then swift as wind, o'er Lemnos' sm
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Then press'd her hand, and thus wit
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Ne'er did my soul so strong a passi
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Or mix among the senate of the gods
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Steep'd in soft joys and circumfuse
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This half-recover'd day shall Troy
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The troops assent; their martial ar
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[pg 264] Less loud the winds that f
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His mournful followers, with assist
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Fired with revenge, Polydamas drew
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[pg 266] So just the stroke, that y
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Who leaves a brother to revenge his
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Such as the house of Promachus must
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By Teucer's arrows mingled with the
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I hung thee trembling in a golden c
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And that unbroken vow, our virgin b
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So swift flew Juno to the bless'd a
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With that he gives command to Fear
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Cease then thy offspring's death un
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He bids thee from forbidden wars re
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Lay yon proud structures level with
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[pg 274] Let Ilion conquer, till th
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Bathed Greece in slaughter, and her
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While these fly trembling, others p
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[pg 277] Then with his hand he shoo
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[pg 278] Victorious Troy; then, sta
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Preserved their line, and equal kep
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It stretch'd in dust unhappy Lycoph
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On his brave head a crested helm he
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His wife live honour'd, all his rac
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"Lo, Melanippus! lo, where Dolops l
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And rends his side, fresh-bleeding
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To view the navy blazing to the ski
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Burn at each foe, and single every
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Chased from the foremost line, the
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[pg 286] Like strength is felt from
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AJAX DEFENDING THE GREEK SHIPS. "Ha
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same time charges him to content hi
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From her loved breast, with fonder
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Lies pierced with wounds, and bleed
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Some beam of comfort yet on Greece
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Due to the votes of all the Grecian
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[pg 291] No longer flames the lance
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That not one Trojan might be left a
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With gifts of price he sought and w
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Triumphant Greece her rescued decks
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From bank to bank the immortal cour
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Between the space where silver Simo
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Before proud Ilion must resign thei
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The nerves unbraced no more his bul
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Where the strong fibres bind the so
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What grief, what shame, must Glaucu
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"All-seeing monarch! whether Lycia'
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[pg 303] Now fires Agenor, now Poly
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Now Greece gives way, and great Epi
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Then Bathyclaeus fell beneath his r
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There yet scarce spent, it quivers
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Great Merion follows, and new shout
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The vengeance due, and meditates th
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[pg 306] Patroclus' ships the glori
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SLEEP AND DEATH CONVEYING THE BODY
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Vain was thy friend's command, thy
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Defies thy lance; not fated yet to
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So spoke the inspiring god; then to
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[pg 309] In dreadful shock the ming
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[pg 310] A Dardan youth there was,
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Supine, and wildly gazing on the sk
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turns with Ajax, and drives him off
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[pg 313] Eyes the dead hero, and in
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Presumptuous youth! like his shall
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Instarr'd with gems and gold, bestr
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Atrides from the voice the storm di
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With heart indignant and retorted e
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[pg 316] What from thy thankless ar
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"Ah, wretched man! unmindful of thy
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Full on the Greeks they drive in fi
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All, whom this well-known voice sha
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The sinewy ankles bored, the feet h
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Plunged in his throat, the weapon d
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To save your Troy, though heaven it
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The whirling lance, with vigorous f
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The sun, the moon, and all the ethe
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[pg 322] But round the corse the he
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[pg 323] In vain Automedon now shak
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What wretched creature of what wret
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[pg 324] Sole in the seat the chari
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"Lo, to my sight, beyond our hope r
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Then through the field he sends his
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Stooping, he shunn'd; the javelin i
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O'er the dark clouds extends his pu
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She breathes new vigour in her hero
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A chief once thought no terror of t
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[pg 327] As Hector follow'd, Idomen
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Not Ajax less the will of heaven de
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[pg 328] In general darkness—Lord
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Sour he departs, and quits the unta
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To him the king: "Beloved of Jove!
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Himself returns to his Patroclus sl
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I go at least to bear a tender part
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Beyond mankind, beyond myself is sl
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And let me fall! (Achilles made rep
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Yet, yet awhile thy generous ardour
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To great Achilles at his ships she
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Vulcanian arms: what other can I wi
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Thick on the hills the flaming beac
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On their own spears, by their own c
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[pg 338] Skill'd to discern the fut
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Not long continues to the shores co
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Soon as the morn the purple orient
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[pg 340] And o'er the vales and o'e
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[pg 341] "At last thy will prevails
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TRIPOD. So they. Meanwhile the silv
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[pg 342] And, smiling, thus the wat
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The monarch's steps two female form
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[pg 344] So pierced with sorrows, s
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He marches, combats, almost conquer
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[pg 345] And stubborn brass, and ti
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Two cities radiant on the shield ap
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[pg 346] Two golden talents lay ami
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In arms the glittering squadron ris
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The master meets them with his gobl
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And curl'd on silver props, in orde
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Dread the grim terrors, and at dist
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The gazing multitudes admire around
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Then many a hero had not press'd th
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Unruly murmurs, or ill-timed applau
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'From us, (he said) this day an inf
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And whirl'd her headlong down, for
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With emulation, what I act survey,
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The king of men shall rise in publi
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Talthybius shall the victim boar co
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Thy praise it is in dreadful camps
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[pg 355] If trembling in the ships
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He crops, and offering meditates hi
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Once tender friend of my distracted
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Of all neglectful, wage a hateful w
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Haste and infuse ambrosia in his br
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Next, his high head the helmet grac
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[pg 359] The charioteer then whirl'
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Thy rage in safety through the file
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meet Achilles. After a long convers
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[pg 361] (The work of Vulcan,) sat
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Their troops but lately durst not m
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Her bravest heroes pant with inward
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With fiery Vulcan last in battle st
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[pg 364] Through the thick troops t
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[pg 365] Gives the loud signal, and
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Her lofty walls not long our progre
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Hear how the glorious origin we pro
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[pg 367] Three sons renown'd adorn'
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Women alone, when in the streets th
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The forceful spear of great Achille
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[pg 369] The king of ocean to the f
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Secure no Grecian force transcends
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The single fight with Thetis' godli
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To the forbidden field he takes his
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Then with revengeful eyes he scann'
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[pg 372] "Wretch! thou hast 'scaped
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Unhappy boy! no prayer, no moving a
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[pg Succeeds to fate: the spear his
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The spiky wheels through heaps of c
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[pg 374] BOOK XXI. ARGUMENT. THE BA
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[pg 375] Part to the town fly diver
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Repeated wounds the reddening river
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But kind Eetion, touching on the sh
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Try, if the grave can hold the wand
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And scarce twelve morning suns have
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But least, the sons of Priam's hate
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Thy bloated corpse, and suck thy go
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[pg 378] Flows from the source of A
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Threatening he said: the hostile ch
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"So ends thy glory! Such the fate t
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All scatter'd round the stream (the
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Not till proud Hector, guardian of
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His feet, upborne, scarce the stron
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And gather fast, and murmur at his
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Wash'd from beneath him slides the
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The power of ocean first: "Forbear
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[pg 382] Not a whole river stops th
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No Greeks shall e'er his perish'd r
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Rush the swift eastern and the west
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The watery willows hiss before the
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Me, only me, with all his wasteful
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And views contending gods with care
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[pg 385] The scornful dame her conq
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Minerva smiling heard, the pair o'e
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We shared the lengthen'd labours of
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Like yearly leaves, that now, with
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Thy sex's tyrant, with a tiger's he
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"How shall I face the dame, who giv
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Some proud in triumph, some with ra
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[pg 388] He comes, and desolation m
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And wrapt in clouds, restrain'd the
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And such his valour, that who stand
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The lifted javelin, thus bespoke th
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Flies from the furious chief in thi
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BOOK XXII. ARGUMENT. THE DEATH OF H
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Close to the walls, advancing o'er
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What gasping numbers now had bit th
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Full at the Scaean gates expects th
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But if (which Heaven forbid) alread
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(Dire pomp of sovereign wretchednes
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The words of age; attend a parent's
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He stood, and question'd thus his m
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[pg 394] And add half Ilion's yet r
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Thus at the panting dove a falcon f
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[pg 395] By these they pass'd, one
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Now see him flying; to his fears re
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The certain hound his various maze
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Sign'd to the troops to yield his f
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Obey'd; and rested, on his lance re
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Or let us stretch Achilles on the f
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"Talk not of oaths (the dreadful ch
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[pg 398] Now shakes his lance, and
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"'Tis so—Heaven wills it, and my
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[pg 399] When all the starry train
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While cast to all the rage of hosti
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[pg 400] Nor rob the vultures of on
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The reeking javelin, cast it on the
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If in the melancholy shades below,
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Given to the rage of an insulting t
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(Guide or companion, friends! I ask
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"Ah why has Heaven prolong'd this h
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Forth from her ivory hand the shutt
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And sought for glory in the jaws of
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ANDROMACHE FAINTING ON THE WALL. "O
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To help him now! no father to defen
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And when still evening gave him up
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[pg 405] BOOK XXIII. ARGUMENT. FUNE
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day is employed in felling the timb
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For such a warrior Thetis aids thei
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The huge ox bellowing falls; with f
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And bid the forests fall: (such rit
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Living, I seem'd his dearest, tende
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[pg 408] May mix our ashes in one c
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Alas! how different! yet how like t
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The wood the Grecians cleave, prepa
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But great Achilles stands apart in
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And now the sun had set upon their
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Sad sacrifice! twelve Trojan captiv
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THE FUNERAL PILE OF PATROCLUS. Nor
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[pg 412] "Not so (the dame replied)
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With large libations from the golde
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"Ye kings and princes of the Achaia
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The sacred relics to the tent they
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An ample double bowl contents the l
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[pg 414] The steeds of Tros beneath
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Compare those rivals' judgment and
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[pg 415] And round, a circle for th
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The last, but not least ardent for
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(Each o'er his flying courser hung
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She breaks his rival's chariot from
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Haste then: yon narrow road, before
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His horse compell'd; foreboding in
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And saw the foremost steed with sha
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[pg 418] Eumelus' steeds, high boun
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High o'er his head the circling las
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[pg 419] Such, and so narrow now th
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What if the gods, the skilful to co
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The corslet brought, and gave it to
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The globe, and whose dread earthqua
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Not break, the settled temper of th
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[pg 421] Take thou this token of a
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Phyleus and Polydorus with the spea
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[pg 422] The prizes next are order'
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For who excels in all? Then let my
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And painful sweat from all their me
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Scarce did the chief the vigorous s
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[pg 424] He said; and, straining, h
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And now succeed the gifts ordain'd
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[pg 425] Pelides points the barrier
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Was clogg'd with slimy dung and min
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(A green old age unconscious of dec
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(A Thracian blade, distinct with st
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A mass of iron (an enormous round),
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High o'er the wondering crowds the
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And skilful Teucer: in the helm the
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[pg 428] A moment hung, and spread
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Pleased from the hero's lips his pr
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notwithstanding the remonstrances o
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[pg 430] The form so pleasing, and
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Spread o'er the sacred corse his go
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[pg 431] Is then the dire Achilles
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THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS. "If equal ho
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Their merits, nor their honours, ar
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From the bent angle sinks the leade
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And all the gods in shining synod r
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The mournful father, Iris shall pre
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[pg 434] But yield to ransom, and r
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IRIS ADVISES PRIAM TO OBTAIN THE BO
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[pg 435] For Hector's sake these wa
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"Unhappy consort of a king distress
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[pg 436] No—pent in this sad pala
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Content—By the same hand let me e
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Am I become my people's common show
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Mestor the brave, renown'd in ranks
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Last to the yoke the well-matched m
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Tower on the right of yon ethereal
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Jove heard his prayer, and from the
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Great Jove beheld him as he cross'd
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[pg 440] That circling Ilus' ancien
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These, who with endless hate thy ra
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The king, alarm'd: "Say what, and w
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"If then thou art of stern Pelides'
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Thus spoke to Priam the celestial g
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O'er pathless forests, or the roari
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Then swift alighted the celestial g
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[pg 443] Unseen by these, the king
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Expels him helpless from his peacef
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"Think of thy father, and this face
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From the high throne divine Achille
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[pg 445] He wanders, outcast both o
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These unavailing sorrows o'er the d
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[pg 446] To pass our outworks, or e
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Then, while the body on the car the
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[pg 447] In one sad day beheld the
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The care of heaven thy Hector has a
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[pg 448] "Permit me now, beloved of
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Remains unask'd; what time the rite
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Now gods and men the gifts of sleep
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Charged with the mournful load, to
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Thus wildly wailing, at the gates t
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An only son, once comfort of our pa
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[pg 451] Why gav'st thou not to me
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Yet glow'st thou fresh with every l
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The wretched source of all this mis
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[pg 452] Roll back the gather'd for
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Such honours Ilion to her hero paid
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happened to Troy and the chief acto
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Ulysses also, after innumerable tro
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Footnotes 1. "What," says Archdeaco
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2. "Somewhat similar may be seen in
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"The voice," observes Heeren, "was
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5. 6. 7. rightly observes, "The aut
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10. that it is obviously a copy fro
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13. 14. 15. 16. A more probable rea
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21. And ask you, maid, of all the b
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25. It is, indeed not easy to calcu
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town of Stirling, in Scotland. No s
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27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Quarterly Revie
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37. 38. 39. 40. Sculptures, No. 123
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quence of friendship prevails more
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43. 44. 45. 46. 47. was being gradu
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48. 49. 50. —Cilla, a town of Tro
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51. 52. sic, while the arrows with
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54. 55. 56. Rather, "bright-eyed."
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58. 59. best to restrain his anger,
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62. 63. mortal, and Peleus, with gr
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66. with himself."—'Lectures on t
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68. That is, drawing back their nec
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71. 72. have been so struck with it
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Vulcan, attempting to relieve her,
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76. casional revolutions, its publi
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79. 80. This truly military sentime
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83. manifest terror (II. Xviii. 246
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85. 86. wards of 100,000 men. Nicho
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we are left to suppose something bo
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89. 90. heap upon him repulsive per
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93. to Bacchus, because he fed on v
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98. in Lydia, formed by the river C
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99. 100. the peculiar colour of its
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mind of a poet. Yet there is scarce
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troops to have rowed and navigated
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105. 106. 107. —"Paradise Lost,"
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109. 110. Lorenzo de Medici, in Ros
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114. appended these lines to his pi
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116. "His lab'ring heart with sudde
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120. 121. 122. 123. —Scaea's gate
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125. 126. 127. 128. —The martial
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131. 132. Cotyius, in the southern
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133. 134. "The plant she bruises wi
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137. 138. 139. —Sevenfold city, B
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144. 145. Gl' empie d' honor la fac
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148. 149. 150. 151. —Such stream,
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155. 156. verb, designating the oi
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159. introduced for the purpose of
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164. remarked, that the Homeric des
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167. In hopes to reconcile their he
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169. 170. 171. 172. 173. —Solymae
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175. bloodshed—which seems to hav
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177. 178. 179. 180. 181. Va tragl'
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184. 185. 186. "Sete o guerrieri, i
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187. 188. 189. peculiar crisis of i
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190. edict as the cause of their pr
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191. 192. which it was not attached
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193. 194. "Paradise Lost," iv. 496.
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198. The victims fall: to heav'n th
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201. respect with which Nestor addr
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203. 204. hance her fitness to be t
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208. 209. chieftains busied themsel
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211. notes to my prose translation,
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212. 213. Of infant frowardness the
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218. between the straps, to protect
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221. 222. "La terra in vece del not
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224. 225. So they around Ulysses pr
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227. 228. 229. —"Paradise Lost,"
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231. Is from his top torn, when a s
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235. 236. "Twice seven, the charmin
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238. "Underneath the violet, Crocus
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241. 242. Maker omnipotent, and tho
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deed connected with the comparative
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244. selves are less important, it
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to Juno the approaching death of Sa
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247. 248. of Troy was as little lik
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249. Is led, the funeral of his lor
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"In the wide circle of the shield w
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Were horrid wars depicted; grimly p
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257. The steers were moving; sturdy
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258. sporting dolphins, the fugitiv
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259. 260. —Ambrosia. "The blue-ey
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264. 265. "Ere Ilium and the Trojan
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268. 269. Sustain'd the vanquish'd,
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270. 271. the flood at the critical
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275. 276. "On the other side, Incen
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279. 280. cian camp by the valour o
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284. After so many funerals of thy
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287. 288. Firs, pines, and pitchtre
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Walking he strides, his head erecte
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293. 294. "Troilus is only once nam
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295. With rapid force they bear him
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did not often, especially in orator
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that evil inflicted on the author o
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