The Iliad of Homer


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Wheel their due flight in varied ranks descried:  
And each with outstretch'd neck his rank maintains,  
In marshall'd order through th' ethereal void."  
Lorenzo de Medici, in Roscoe's Life, Appendix.  
See Cary's Dante: "Hell," canto v.  
109 Silent, breathing rage.  
"Thus they,  
Breathing united force with fixed thought,  
Moved on in silence."  
"Paradise Lost," book i. 559.  
110 "As when some peasant in a bushy brake  
Has with unwary footing press'd a snake;  
He starts aside, astonish'd, when he spies  
His rising crest, blue neck, and rolling eyes"  
Dryden's Virgil, ii. 510.  
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11 Dysparis, i.e. unlucky, ill fated, Paris. This alludes to the evils  
which resulted from his having been brought up, despite the omens  
which attended his birth.  
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