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1 It has frequently been observed, that most pestilences begin with
animals, and that Homer had this fact in mind.
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2 --Convened to council. The public assembly in the heroic times is
well characterized by Grote, vol. ii. p 92. "It is an assembly for
talk. Communication and discussion to a certain extent by the chiefs
in person, of the people as listeners and sympathizers--often for
eloquence, and sometimes for quarrel--but here its ostensible
purposes end."
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3 Old Jacob Duport, whose "Gnomologia Homerica" is full of curious and
useful things, quotes several passages of the ancients, in which
reference is made to these words of Homer, in maintenance of the
belief that dreams had a divine origin and an import in which men
were interested.
54 Rather, "bright-eyed." See the German critics quoted by Arnold.
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5 The prize given to Ajax was Tecmessa, while Ulysses received
Laodice, the daughter of Cycnus.
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6 The Myrmidons dwelt on the southern borders of Thessaly, and took
their origin from Myrmido, son of Jupiter and Eurymedusa. It is
fancifully supposed that the name was derived from myrmaex, an
ant, "because they imitated the diligence of the ants, and like
them were indefatigable, continually employed in cultivating the
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