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80 --Oileus, i.e. Ajax, the son of Oileus, in contradistinction to
Ajax, son of Telamon.
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81 --In the general's helm. It was customary to put the lots into a
helmet, in which they were well shaken up; each man then took his
choice.
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82 --God of Thrace. Mars, or Mavors, according to his Thracian
epithet. Hence "Mavortia Moenia."
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83 --Grimly he smiled.
"And death
Grinn'd horribly a ghastly smile."
--"Paradise Lost," ii. 845.
"There Mavors stands
Grinning with ghastly feature."
--Carey's Dante: Hell, v.
184 "Sete o guerrieri, incomincio Pindoro,
Con pari honor di pari ambo possenti,
Dunque cessi la pugna, e non sian rotte
Le ragioni, e 'l riposo, e de la notte."
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