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vol. 1 p. 98, sq. (ed. Basil) gives this interpretation, and
likewise an allegorical one, which we will spare the reader.
6
7 --Atoned, i.e. reconciled. This is the proper and most natural
meaning of the word, as may be seen from Taylor's remarks in
Calmet's Dictionary, p.110, of my edition.
6
8 That is, drawing back their necks while they cut their throats. "If
the sacrifice was in honour of the celestial gods, the throat was
bent upwards towards heaven; but if made to the heroes, or infernal
deities, it was killed with its throat toward the ground."-- "Elgin
Marbles," vol i. p.81.
"The jolly crew, unmindful of the past,
The quarry share, their plenteous dinner haste,
Some strip the skin; some portion out the spoil;
The limbs yet trembling, in the caldrons boil;
Some on the fire the reeking entrails broil.
Stretch'd on the grassy turf, at ease they dine,
Restore their strength with meat, and cheer their souls with
wine."
Dryden's "Virgil," i. 293.
69 --Crown'd, i.e. filled to the brim. The custom of adorning goblets
with flowers was of later date.
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