Part 85 (1/2)

269 ”Perhaps the boldest excursion of Hoion of poetical fancy is the collision into which, in the twenty-first of the Iliad, he has brought the river God Scamander, first with Achilles, and afterwards with Vulcan, when su fury of the stream finds the natural interpretation in the character of the mountain torrents of Greece and Asia Minor

Their wide, shi+ngly beds are in summer comparatively dry, so as to be easily forded by the foot passenger But a thunder-shower in the mountains, unobserved perhaps by the traveller on the plain, hty river The rescue of Achilles by the fiery arms of Vulcan scarcely admits of the sa of the flood at the critical ht, by a slight extension of the figurative parallel, be ascribed to a God symbolic of the influences opposed to all atmospheric moisture”--Mure, vol i p 480, sq

270 Wood has observed, that ”the circu from one of its banks to the other, affords a very just idea of the breadth of the Sca, as compared with a death in the field of battle, was considered utterly disgraceful

272 --_Beneath a caldron_

”So, ith crackling fla waters from the bottom rise

Above the brims they force their fiery way; Black vapours cliil, vii 644

273 ”This tale of the temporary servitude of particular Gods, by order of Jove, as a punish the incidents of the Mythical world”--Grote, vol i p 156

274 --_Not half so dreadful_

”On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a coe In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war”

--Paradise Lost,” xi 708

275 ”And thus his own undaunted mind explores”--”Paradise Lost,” vi

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276 The example of Nausicaa, in the Odyssey, proves that the duties of the laundry were not thought derogatory, even fronity of a princess, in the heroic tiht_

”Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn”

”Paradise Lost,” v 166

278 Such was his fate After chasing the Trojans into the town, he was slain by an arrow fro auspices of Apollo The greatest efforts were made by the Trojans to possess themselves of the body, which was however rescued and borne off to the Grecian camp by the valour of Ajax and Ulysses

Thetis stole away the body, just as the Greeks were about to burn it with funeral honours, and conveyed it away to a renewed life of immortality in the isle of Leuke in the Euxine

279 --_Astyanax,_ ie the _city-king_ or guardian It is a that Plato, who often finds fault with Hoy into his Cratylus

280 This book has been closely iil in his fifth book, but it is ales for comparison

281 --_Thrice in order led_ This was a frequent rite at funerals The Romans had the same custom, which they called _decursio_ Plutarch states that Alexander, in after times, renewed these same honours to the memory of Achilles himself

282 --_And swore_ Literally, and called Orcus, the God of oaths, to witness See butt expected by thy friends! from whence Art thou so late return'd for our defence?

Do we behold thee, wearied as we are With length of labours, and with, toils of war?

After sotown?