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PARADISE REGAINED. 3g3
and the difguifes under which he accompliftied them, are recited with
the ufual Greek epigrammatic brevity.
Zev;> Kwcvo?, Taupoj, ZATTPOI, yjjvjos &' e^td;
An^nf, Evptvnvs, ANTIOriHZ, Aavanj.
I. 190. p. 29. Apollo, Neptune, Jupiter, or Pan,']
Dunfler.
Cali/lo, Semele, and Antiopa, were miftreffes to Jupiter; Clymene
and Daphne to Apollo ; and Syrinx to .Part. Both here and elfewhere
Milton confiders the gods of the heathens as demons or devils. Thus,
in the Septuagint verfion of the Pfalms ; name 0* fltot tocv iSvmv Xaijuo-
vta. Pfalm xcvi. 5. (and likewife in the Vulgate Latin, Quoniam
omnes Dii gentium dtemonia.J And the notion of the demons having
commerce with women in the fhape of the heathen gods is very an-
cient, and is exprefsly afferted by Juftin Martyr. See Apol. i. P. 10.
et 33. edit. Thirlbii. Newton.
I. 190. p. 29. Pan,
Satyr, or Faun, or Sylvan ?
Unlefs the goddefs that in rural fhrine
Dwell'ft here with Pan, or Sylvan, Comus, 267.
Milton notices all thefe rural demi-gods and their amours, in his
beautiful Latin Elegy, In adventum veris.
/. 196. p. 29. Remember that Pellean conqueror,]
Alexander the Great was born at Pella in Macedonia: his conti-
nence and clemency to Darius's queen and daughters, and the other
Perfian ladies whom he took captive after the battle of Iflus, are com-
mended by the hiftorians. Turn quidem ita fe geffit, ut omnes ante
cum reges et continentia et dementia vincerentur. Virgines enim re-
gias excellentis formae tarn fanfte habuit, quam (i eodem quo ipfe pa-
rente genitae forent : conjugem ejufdem, quam nulla aetatis fuae pul-
chritudine corporis vicit, adeo ipfe non violavit, ut fummam adhi-
buerit curam, ne quis captivo corpori illuderet, &c. Quint. Curt-
lib, iii. cap. 9. He was then a young conqueror, of about twentythree
years of age, a youth, as Milton expreffes it. Newton.
I. 199. p. 29. How he Jlrnairi d of Africa difmifs'd,
In his prime youth, the fair Iberian maid.]
The continence of Scipio Africanus at the age of twenty -four, and
his generofity in rcftoring a beautiful Spanifh lady to her hufband and
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