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[pg<br />

144]<br />

With equal hand: in these explored<br />

the fate<br />

Of Greece and Troy, and poised the<br />

mighty weight:<br />

Press'd with its load, the Grecian<br />

balance lies<br />

Low sunk on earth, the Trojan<br />

strikes the skies.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n Jove from Ida's top his horrors<br />

spreads;<br />

<strong>The</strong> clouds burst dreadful o'er the<br />

Grecian heads;<br />

Thick lightnings flash; the muttering<br />

thunder rolls;<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir strength he withers, and unmans<br />

their souls.<br />

Before his wrath the trembling<br />

hosts retire;<br />

<strong>The</strong> gods in terrors, and the skies<br />

on fire.<br />

Nor great Idomeneus that sight<br />

could bear,

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