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234 Co of Sleep in Orlando Furioso, bk vi
235 ”Twice seven, the charhters of the main-- Around my person wait, and bear n, The fairest, Deiopeia, shall be thine”
Dryden's Virgil, aen i 107, seq
236 --_And Minos_ ”By Hohter of Phoenix, who authors name Europa; and he is thus carried back into the remotest period of Cretan antiquity known to the poet, apparently as a native hero, Illustrious enough for a divine parentage, and too ancient to allow his descent to be traced to any other source But in a genealogy recorded by later writers, he is likewise the adopted son of Asterius, as descendant of Dorus, the son of Helen, and is thus connected with a colony said to have been led into Creta by Tentamus, or Tectamus, son of Dorus, who is related either to have crossed over fro led his followers by land into Laconia”--Thirlwall, p 136, seq
237 Milton has e the couch of our first parents:--
”Underneath the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay, 'Broider'd the ground”
--”Paradise Lost,” iv 700
238 --_He lies protected,_
”Forthwith on all sides to his aid was run By angels , who interpos'd Defence, while others bore him on their shi+elds Back to his chariot, where it stood retir'd Fro for anguish, and despite, and shame”
”Paradise Lost,” vi 335, seq
239 --_The brazen doe 142
240 --_For, by the Gods! who flies_ Observe the bold ellipsis of ”he cries,” and the transition from the direct to the oblique construction So in Milton:--
”Thus at their shady lodge arriv'd, both stood, Both turn'd, and under open sky ador'd The God that made both sky, air, earth, and heaven, Which they beheld, the lobe, And starry pole--Thou also ht, Maker omnipotent, and thou the day”
Milton, ”Paradise Lost,” Book iv
241 --_So some tall rock_
”But like a rock un waves-- Propp'd on himself he stands: his solid sides Wash off the sea-weeds, and the sounding tides”
Dryden's Virgil, vii 809
242 Protesilaus was the first Greek who fell, slain by Hector, as he leaped from the vessel to the Trojan shore He was buried on the Chersonese, near the city of Plagusa Hygin Fab ciii Tzetz on Lycophr 245, 528 There is a ant tribute to his memory in the Preface to the Heroica of Philostratus
243 --_His best beloved_ The following elegant remarks of Thirlwall (Greece, vol i, p 176 seq) well illustrate the character of the friendshi+p subsisting between these two heroes--
”One of the noblest and most amiable sides of the Greek character, is the readiness hich it lent itself to construct intimate and durable friendshi+ps, and this is a feature no less prominent in the earliest than in later times It was indeed connected with the comparatively low estimation in which female society was held; but the devotedness and constancy hich these attach The heroic companions e find celebrated partly by Homer and partly in traditions which, if not of equal antiquity, were grounded on the sa, seem to have but one heart and soul, with scarcely a wish or object apart, and only to live as they are always ready to die for one another It is true that the relation between them is not always one of perfect equality; but this is a circumstance which, while it often adds a peculiar charnity of the idea which it presents Such were the friendshi+ps of Hercules and Iolaus, of Theseus and Pirithous, of Orestes and Pylades; and though These reater part of their faroundwork undoubtedly subsisted in the period to which the traditions are referred The argument of the Iliad mainly turns on the affection of Achilles for Patroclus, whose love for the greater hero is only teher birth and his unequalled prowess But the ard which united Idoh, as the persons theround, is ht The idea of a Greek hero seeht complete, without such a brother in arms by his side”--Thirlwall, Greece, vol
i p 176, seq
244 ”As hungry wolves with raging appetite, Scour through the fields, ne'er fear the storht-- Their whelps at ho to temper their dry chaps in blood-- So rush'd we forth at once”
--Dryden's Virgil, ii 479