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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: d Resembling Calchas, in Us reo'rendform . And loud commanding voice. 1.67-8. The meaning of this fiction, that Neptune, in the shape of Calchas, aided the Greeks, appears to be that the Greeks, being driven to their ships on the brink of the sea, and rendered desperate by the impossibility of escaping if their fleet should be burnt, were excited to extraordinary acts of valor. Calchas also, their venerable priest, in whom, as a person acquainted with the will of the gods, they had great confidence, exhorting them to make another effort to retrieve their affairs. Their valiant minds he thus to fight arous'd. 1. 135. Neptune's military harangue, delivered in the character of Cak-has, is perhaps one of the best in the Iliad. Every motive by which brave men could be awakened to deeds of heroism, is adduced and urged in the most forcible manner. Self-preservation, patriotism, shame, honor and glory are all skilfully and eloquently appealed to. With great art he attributes the retreat of the brave men he addresses not to want of valor, but to displeasure against Agamemnon for the wrong he had done Achilles; and encourages them by insinuating that a reconciliation between those heroes may yet take place. Two brave lands Around th' Ajacesform'd a phalanx strong. 1. 180-1. See Mr. Pope's note on this subject. But whether the organization of the phalanx mentioned by Homer was, in fact, such as Eustathius describes, seems very doubtful. Great Hector rush'd impetuous, Me a rock, Bearing destruction from a mountain's brow. 1. 197-8. Mr. Pope's translation of this noble simile, is eminently beautiful. His observations upon it are also excellent. b Against him, Merlon aim'd his shining spear, W/tich err'd not. 1.229-30. It seems, from this circumstance, that t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217007979 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021700797X |
| Weight | 1.14 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.78 In |
| List Price | $24.58 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 350 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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