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The Iliad of Homer

BOOK XXIV
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216 -- _The king of Crete:_ Idomeneus.
217 -- _Soft wool within, i e._ a kind of woollen stuffing, pressed in between the straps, to protect the head, and make the helmet fit close.
218 "All the circumstances of this action--the night, Rhesus buried in a profound sleep, and Diomede with the sword in his hand hanging over the head of that prince--furnished Homer with the idea of this fiction, which represents Rhesus lying fast asleep, and, as it were, beholding his enemy in a dream, plunging the sword into his bosom.
This image is very natural; for a man in his condition awakes no farther than to see confusedly what environs him, and to think it not a reality but a dream."-- Pope.
"There's one did laugh in his sleep, and one cry'd murder; They wak'd each other." -- _Macbeth._ 219 "Aurora now had left her saffron bed, And beams of early light the heavens o'erspread." Dryden's Virgil, iv.

639 220 -- _Red drops of blood._ "This phenomenon, if a mere fruit of the poet's imagination, might seem arbitrary or far-fetched.

It is one, however, of ascertained reality, and of no uncommon occurrence in the climate of Greece."-- Mure, i p.493.Cf.Tasso, Gier.Lib.

ix.
15: "La terra in vece del notturno gelo Bagnan rugiade tepide, e sanguigne." 221 "No thought of flight, None of retreat, no unbecoming deed That argued fear." -- "Paradise Lost," vi.

236.
222 -- _One of love._ Although a bastard brother received only a small portion of the inheritance, he was commonly very well treated.


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