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Merrick's Tryphiodorus, v 687, sqq
”Th' Eternal, to prevent such horrid fray, Hung forth in heav'n his golden scales, Wherein all things created first he weighed; The pendulous round earth, with balanced air In counterpoise; now ponders all events, Battles and real and of fight: The latter quick up flew, and kick'd the beam”
”Paradise Lost,” iv 496
193 --_And now,_ &c
”And now all heaven Had gone to wrack, with ruin overspread; Had not th' Alhty Father, where he sitsforeseen”
--”Paradise Lost,” vi 669
194 --_Gerenian Nestor_ The epithet _Gerenian_ either refers to the nanifies honoured, revered See Schol Venet in II B 336; Strabo, viii p
340
195 --_aegae, Helice_ Both these toere conspicuous for their worshi+p of Neptune
196 --_As full blown,_ &c
”Il suo Lesbia quasi bel fior succiso, E in atto si gentil languir treo il collo rateful,_ because the cause in which they were engaged was unjust
”Struck by the lab'ring priests' uplifted hands The victi vapours load the ambient air
But vain their toil: the poho rule the skies Averse beheld the ungrateful sacrifice”
Merrick's Tryphiodorus, vi 527, sqq
198 ”As when about the silver moon, when aire is free froh prospects on the brows Of all steepe hills and pinnacles thrust up thelitter in their sight; When the unht, And all the signs in heaven are seene, that glad the shepherd's heart”
Chap to buttht caused by the Gods, but ”a great and general one, caused by Hector and the Trojans, but with the approval of Jove”
200 Grote, vol ii p 91, after noticing the amemnon, observes, ”The Homeric Council is a purely consultative body, asse , but solely for his inforuidance”
201 In the heroic ti to receive presents to purchase freedoradually becaular, and formed the income of the German, (Tacit Germ Section 15) Persian, (Herodot
iii89), and other kings So, too, in theof taxation, of which they for a long ties, ch x pt 1, p 189) This fact frees Achilles froe of sordidness
Plato, however, (De Rep vi 4), says, ”We cannot commend Phoenix, the tutor of Achilles, as if he spoke correctly, when counselling him to accept of presents and assist the Greeks, but, without presents, not to desist froain, should we co so covetous as to receive presents froamemnon,” &c
202 It may be observed, that, brief as is the mention of Briseis in the Iliad, and small the part she plays--what little is said is pre-eminently calculated to enhance her fitness to be the bride of Achilles Purity, and retiring delicacy, are features well contrasted with the rough, but tender disposition of the hero
203 --_Laodice_ Iphianassa, or Iphigenia, is not aamemnon, when he offers to transfer to Achilles seven towns inhabited by wealthy husbandmen, ould enrich their lord by presents and tribute, seems likewise to assume rather a property in the reat people, the Dolopes of Phthia, on Phoenix”--Thirlwall's Greece, vol i Section 6, p 162, note