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his tact in the dramatic department of his art. Where, for example,
one or more heroes are despatched on some commission, to be executed
at a certain distance of time or place, the fulfilment of this task
is not, as a general rule, immediately described. A certain interval
is allowed them for reaching the appointed scene of action, which
interval is dramatised, as it were, either by a temporary
continuation of the previous narrative, or by fixing attention for a
while on some new transaction, at the close of which the further
account of the mission is resumed."
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68 --With tablets sealed. These probably were only devices of a
hieroglyphical character. Whether writing was known in the Homeric
times is utterly uncertain. See Grote, vol ii. p. 192, sqq.
169 --Solymaean crew, a people of Lycia.
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70 From this "melancholy madness" of Bellerophon, hypochondria received
the name of "Morbus Bellerophonteus." See my notes in my prose
translation, p. 112. The "Aleian field," i.e. "the plain of
wandering," was situated between the rivers Pyramus and Pinarus, in
Cilicia.
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71 --His own, of gold. This bad bargain has passed into a common
proverb. See Aulus Gellius, ii, 23.
172 --Scaean, i e. left hand.
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