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104 "Adam, the goodliest man of men since born,
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.'
--"Paradise Lost," iv. 323.
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05 --Æsetes' tomb. Monuments were often built on the sea-coast, and of
a considerable height, so as to serve as watch-towers or land marks.
See my notes to my prose translations of the "Odyssey," ii. p. 21,
or on Eur. "Alcest." vol. i. p. 240.
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06 --Zeleia, another name for Lycia. The inhabitants were greatly
devoted to the worship of Apollo. See Muller, "Dorians," vol. i. p.
248.
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07 --Barbarous tongues. "Various as were the dialects of the
Greeks--and these differences existed not only between the several
tribes, but even between neighbouring cities--they yet acknowledged
in their language that they formed but one nation were but branches
of the same family. Homer has 'men of other tongues:' and yet Homer
had no general name for the Greek nation."--Heeren, "Ancient Greece,"
Section vii. p. 107, sq.
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08 The cranes.
Marking the tracts of air, the clamorous cranes
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