450.
227 -- _Each equal weight._ "Long time in even scale The battle hung." -- "Paradise Lost," vi.

245.
228 "He on his impious foes right onward drove, _Gloomy as night._" -- "Paradise Lost," vi.

831 229 -- _Renown'd for justice and for length of days,_ Arrian.

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Alex.iv.p.239, also speaks of the independence of these people, which he regards as the result of their poverty and uprightness.
Some authors have regarded the phrase "Hippomolgian," _i.e._ "milking their mares," as an epithet applicable to numerous tribes, since the oldest of the Samatian nomads made their mares' milk one of their chief articles of diet.

The epithet abion or abion, in this passage, has occasioned much discussion.