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during a tempest, on his return from Troy, to sacrifice to Neptune
the first creature that should present itself to his eye on the
Cretan shore, his son fell a victim to his rash vow.
94 --Tydeus' son, i.e. Diomed.
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5 That is, Ajax, the son of Oileus, a Locrian. He must be
distinguished from the other, who was king of Salamis.
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6 A great deal of nonsense has been written to account for the word
unbid, in this line. Even Plato, "Sympos." p. 315, has found some
curious meaning in what, to us, appears to need no explanation. Was
there any heroic rule of etiquette which prevented one
brother-king visiting another without a formal invitation?
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7 Fresh water fowl, especially swans, were found in great numbers
about the Asian Marsh, a fenny tract of country in Lydia, formed by
the river Cayster, near its mouth. See Virgil, "Georgics," vol. i.
383, sq.
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8 --Scamander, or Scamandros, was a river of Troas, rising, according
to Strabo, on the highest part of Mount Ida, in the same hill with
the Granicus and the OEdipus, and falling into the sea at Sigaeum;
everything tends to identify it with Mendere, as Wood, Rennell, and
others maintain; the Mendere is 40 miles long, 300 feet broad, deep
in the time of flood, nearly dry in the summer. Dr. Clarke
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