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3, well observes, that the poet would naturally speak of various towns and cities by the names by which they were known in his own tioodliest hters Eve'

--”Paradise Lost,” iv 323

105 --_aesetes' tomb_ Monuments were often built on the sea-coast, and of a considerable height, so as to serve as watch-towers or land marks

See my notes to my prose translations of the ”Odyssey,” ii p 21, or on Eur ”Alcest” vol i p 240

106 --_Zeleia,_ another nareatly devoted to the worshi+p of Apollo See Muller, ”Dorians,” vol i p

248

107 --_Barbarous tongues_ ”Various as were the dialects of the Greeks--and these differences existed not only between the several tribes, but even between neighbouring cities--they yet acknowledged in their language that they formed but one nation were but branches of the saues:' and yet Hoeneral name for the Greek nation”--Heeren, ”Ancient Greece,”

Section vii p 107, sq

_ 108 The cranes_ ”Marking the tracts of air, the claht in varied ranks descried: And each with outstretch'd neck his rank h th' ethereal void”

Lorenzo de Medici, in Roscoe's Life, Appendix

See Cary's Dante: ”hell,” canto v

_ 109 Silent, breathing rage_ ”Thus they, Breathing united force with fixed thought, Moved on in silence”

”Paradise Lost,” book i 559

110 ”As when so press'd a snake; He starts aside, astonish'd, when he spies His rising crest, blue neck, and rolling eyes”

Dryden's Virgil, ii 510

111 Dysparis, ie unlucky, ill fated, Paris This alludes to the evils which resulted froht up, despite the o scene, in which Homer has contrived to introduce so brilliant a sketch of the Grecian warriors, has been ione surveying the opposing chaus describes their insignia and details their histories

113 --_No wonder,_ &c Zeuxis, the celebrated artist, is said to have appended these lines to his picture of Helen, as a motto Valer Max

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114 The early epic was largely occupied with the exploits and sufferings of wohters of the Grecian heroes A nation of courageous, hardy, indefatigable wo only a short te their nu theeneral type, sti to the fancy of the poet, and a theme eminently popular with his hearers We find these warlike fe in the ancient poems, and universally accepted as past realities in the Iliad When Priam wishes to illustrate emphatically the most numerous host in which he ever found hiia, on the banks of the Sangarius, for the purpose of resisting the formidable Amazons When Bellerophon is to be e, by those who prudently wished to procure his death, he is despatched against the Amazons--Grote, vol

i p 289

115 --_Antenor,_ like aeneas, had always been favourable to the restoration of Helen Liv 1 2

116 ”His lab'ring heart with sudden rapture seized He paus'd, and on the ground in silence gazed

Unskill'd and uninspired he seeraceful , Pours the full tide of eloquence along; While fro torrent flows, Soft as the fleeces of descending snows

Now stronger notes engage the listening crowd, Louder the accents rise, and yetfrom a distant cloud”

Merrick's ”Tryphiodorus,” 148, 99