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Dryden's Virgil, viii. 742.
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35 --Sthenelus, a son of Capaneus, one of the Epigoni. He was one of
the suitors of Helen, and is said to have been one of those who
entered Troy inside the wooden horse.
36 --Forwarn'd the horrors. The same portent has already been
mentioned. To this day, modern nations are not wholly free from this
superstition.
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37 --Sevenfold city, Boeotian Thebes, which had seven gates.
38 --As when the winds.
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"Thus, when a black-brow'd gust begins to rise,
White foam at first on the curl'd ocean fries;
Then roars the main, the billows mount the skies,
Till, by the fury of the storm full blown,
The muddy billow o'er the clouds is thrown."
Dryden's Virgil, vii. 736.
139 "Stood
Like Teneriffe or Atlas unremoved;
His stature reach'd the sky."
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