The Iliad of Homer


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brought to a close: he is then admitted to the godhead, and receives  
in marriage Hebe."--Grote, vol. i. p. 128.  
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59 --Ambrosia.  
"The blue-eyed maid,  
In ev'ry breast new vigour to infuse.  
Brings nectar temper'd with ambrosial dews."  
Merrick's Tryphiodorus, vi. 249.  
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60 "Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. He  
stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth  
upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the  
cloud is not rent under them." Job xxvi. 6-8.  
261 "Swift from his throne the infernal monarch ran,  
All pale and trembling, lest the race of man,  
Slain by Jove's wrath, and led by Hermes' rod,  
Should fill (a countless throng!) his dark abode."  
Merrick's Tryphiodorus, vi. 769, sqq.  
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62 These words seem to imply the old belief, that the Fates might be  
delayed, but never wholly set aside.  
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