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115 --Antenor, like Æneas, had always been favourable to the
restoration of Helen. Liv 1. 2.
116 "His lab'ring heart with sudden rapture seized
He paus'd, and on the ground in silence gazed.
Unskill'd and uninspired he seems to stand,
Nor lifts the eye, nor graceful moves the hand:
Then, while the chiefs in still attention hung,
Pours the full tide of eloquence along;
While from his lips the melting torrent flows,
Soft as the fleeces of descending snows.
Now stronger notes engage the listening crowd,
Louder the accents rise, and yet more loud,
Like thunders rolling from a distant cloud."
Merrick's "Tryphiodorus," 148, 99.
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17 Duport, "Gnomol. Homer," p. 20, well observes that this comparison
may also be sarcastically applied to the frigid style of oratory.
It, of course, here merely denotes the ready fluency of Ulysses.
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18 --Her brothers' doom. They perished in combat with Lynceus and
Idas, whilst besieging Sparta. See Hygin. Poet Astr. 32, 22. Virgil
and others, however, make them share immortality by turns.
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