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flood at the critical moment when the hero's destruction appeared
imminent, might, by a slight extension of the figurative parallel,
be ascribed to a god symbolic of the influences opposed to all
atmospheric moisture."--Mure, vol. i. p. 480, sq.
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70 Wood has observed, that "the circumstance of a falling tree, which
is described as reaching from one of its banks to the other, affords
a very just idea of the breadth of the Scamander."
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71 --Ignominious. Drowning, as compared with a death in the field of
battle, was considered utterly disgraceful.
272 --Beneath a caldron.
"So, when with crackling flames a caldron fries,
The bubbling waters from the bottom rise.
Above the brims they force their fiery way;
Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day."
Dryden's Virgil, vii. 644.
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73 "This tale of the temporary servitude of particular gods, by order
of Jove, as a punishment for misbehaviour, recurs not unfrequently
among the incidents of the Mythical world."--Grote, vol. i. p. 156.
274 --Not half so dreadful.
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