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the uncle of Mohammed," &c.--Coleridge, p. 213.
159 "Long had the wav'ring god the war delay'd,
While Greece and Troy alternate own'd his aid."
Merrick's "Tryphiodorus," vi. 761, sq.
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60 --Paeon seems to have been to the gods, what Podaleirius and
Machaon were to the Grecian heroes.
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61 --Arisbe, a colony of the Mitylenaeans in Troas.
62 --Pedasus, a town near Pylos.
63 --Rich heaps of brass. "The halls of Alkinous and Menelaus glitter
with gold, copper, and electrum; while large stocks of yet
unemployed metal--gold, copper, and iron are stored up in the
treasure-chamber of Odysseus and other chiefs. Coined money is
unknown in the Homeric age--the trade carried on being one of barter.
In reference also to the metals, it deserves to be remarked, that
the Homeric descriptions universally suppose copper, and not iron,
to be employed for arms, both offensive and defensive. By what
process the copper was tempered and hardened, so as to serve the
purpose of the warrior, we do not know; but the use of iron for
these objects belongs to a later age."--Grote, vol. ii. p. 142.
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