The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1Charles Rivington, 1760 - Achilles (Greek mythology) |
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... ancient , if not of the fame age with him . t The Epigrams are extracted out of the life , faid to be written by Herodotus , and we leave them as fuch to ftand or fall with it ; except the Epitaph on Midas , which is very ancient ...
... ancient , if not of the fame age with him . t The Epigrams are extracted out of the life , faid to be written by Herodotus , and we leave them as fuch to ftand or fall with it ; except the Epitaph on Midas , which is very ancient ...
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... ancient portraits of him feem purely notional , yet they agree ( as I think Fabretti has obferved ) in representing him with a fhort curled beard , and diftinct marks of age in his forehead . That which is prefixed to this book , is ...
... ancient portraits of him feem purely notional , yet they agree ( as I think Fabretti has obferved ) in representing him with a fhort curled beard , and diftinct marks of age in his forehead . That which is prefixed to this book , is ...
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... ancient state of Poetry in Greece ; that no one was honoured with the name of Poet , before him whom it has especially belonged to ever after . And if we farther appeal to the confent of authors , we find he has other titles for being ...
... ancient state of Poetry in Greece ; that no one was honoured with the name of Poet , before him whom it has especially belonged to ever after . And if we farther appeal to the confent of authors , we find he has other titles for being ...
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Achilles againſt Agamemnon ancient anſwer Atrides beauty becauſe beſt cauſe Chalcis chief Chios compariſon criticks defcends defign deſcribes deſcription Euftathius expreffion fable facred faid fame fays fceptre feems fhall fhews fhips fhore fhould fide fimile fince firft firſt fome fpeech fpirit ftadia ftill ftories fubject fuch Goddeſs Gods greateſt Grecian Greece Greeks Heroes himſelf Homer honour Ibid Idomeneus Iliad imagine itſelf Jove Jupiter juſt King laſt Leo Allatius Lycurgus Macrobius Madam Dacier moft moſt muſt Neftor Nireus o'er obferved occafion paffage paffion Pauf Peneus perfons Phthiotis pleaſure Plutarch poem Poet poetry pow'r praiſe preferved Prieſt Princes promiſe Pteleon racter raiſe reaſon repreſenting rife ſays ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhips ſhore ſkies ſome ſpeak ſpoken ſtate Statius ſtill ſtory Strab ſtrength Suidas thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand tion tranflation Trojan Troy Ulyffes uſed verſe Virgil warriours whofe whoſe wiſdom καὶ