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Swarm'd and were straiten'd."--"Paradise Lost" i. 768.
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2 It was the herald's duty to make the people sit down. "A standing
agora is a symptom of manifest terror (II. Xviii. 246) an evening
agora, to which men came elevated by wine, is also the forerunner of
mischief ('Odyssey,' iii. 138)."--Grote, ii. p. 91, note.
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3 This sceptre, like that of Judah (Genesis xlix. 10), is a type of
the supreme and far-spread dominion of the house of the Atrides. See
Thucydides i. 9. "It is traced through the hands of Hermes, he being
the wealth giving god, whose blessing is most efficacious in
furthering the process of acquisition."--Grote, i. p. 212. Compare
Quintus Calaber (Dyce's Selections, p. 43).
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Thus the monarch spoke,
Then pledged the chief in a capacious cup,
Golden, and framed by art divine (a gift
Which to Almighty Jove lame Vulcan brought
Upon his nuptial day, when he espoused
The Queen of Love), the sire of gods bestow'd
The cup on Dardanus, who gave it next
To Ericthonius Tros received it then,
And left it, with his wealth, to be possess'd
By Ilus he to great Laomedon
Gave it, and last to Priam's lot it fell."
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