The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An essay on ... Homer [by T. Parnell].1720 |
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... ancient , because it mentions Adrian : The ftory agrees in the main with the short account we find in P Plutarch , " That Ga- nitor , the son of Amphidamas , King of Euboea , be- 66 ing us'd to celebrate his father's funeral games , in ...
... ancient , because it mentions Adrian : The ftory agrees in the main with the short account we find in P Plutarch , " That Ga- nitor , the son of Amphidamas , King of Euboea , be- 66 ing us'd to celebrate his father's funeral games , in ...
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... ancient commentator , o Di- dymus , found the fubject fo fertile , as to employ a great part of his four thousand volumes upon it . There is a prophecy of the Sibyls that he fhould be born at Salamis in Cyprus ; and then to play an ...
... ancient commentator , o Di- dymus , found the fubject fo fertile , as to employ a great part of his four thousand volumes upon it . There is a prophecy of the Sibyls that he fhould be born at Salamis in Cyprus ; and then to play an ...
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... ancient authorities of's Simonides and Theo- critus for his being born among them They men- tion a race they had , call'd the Homerida , whom they reckon'd his pofterity ; they caft medals of him ; they Politian . Praf , in Homerum ...
... ancient authorities of's Simonides and Theo- critus for his being born among them They men- tion a race they had , call'd the Homerida , whom they reckon'd his pofterity ; they caft medals of him ; they Politian . Praf , in Homerum ...
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... ancients , who compar'd it with the original , have allow'd to be fo true in all points , that it could never have been owing to a loose and cafual information : Even Stra- bo's account of Greece is but a kind of commentary upon Homer's ...
... ancients , who compar'd it with the original , have allow'd to be fo true in all points , that it could never have been owing to a loose and cafual information : Even Stra- bo's account of Greece is but a kind of commentary upon Homer's ...
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... ancient , if not of the fame age with him . The Epigrams are extracted out of the life , faid to Statius Praf . ad Sylv . 1 . Phalarid , 2 . i Paufan . Baotic . Thucyd . 3 . w Pauf . Meffen . Lucian ba be written by Herodotus , and we ...
... ancient , if not of the fame age with him . The Epigrams are extracted out of the life , faid to Statius Praf . ad Sylv . 1 . Phalarid , 2 . i Paufan . Baotic . Thucyd . 3 . w Pauf . Meffen . Lucian ba be written by Herodotus , and we ...
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Achilles Æneid againſt Agamemnon alfo ancient arms army Atrides battel beauty becauſe call'd caufe Chalcis character chief Chios compariſon defcending defcription defign Euftathius expreffion fable facred faid fame fays fceptre fecond feems feen felf fenfe feveral fhall fhews fhining fhips fhore fhort fhould fide fight fimile fince fingle firft firſt flain fome fometimes fpeech fpirit ftand ftill ftory ftrength fubject fuch Goddeſs Gods Grecian Greece Greeks heav'n Hector Heroes himſelf hoft Homer honour Ibid Idomeneus Iliad Jove juft Jupiter King laft lefs Leo Allatius Madam Dacier manner Menelaus moft moſt muſt Neftor Nireus o'er obferves occafion paffage paffion Pandarus Paris perfons plain pleaſure Plutarch poem Poet poetry pow'r praiſe prefent Priam Prince reafon reft reprefented rifing ſhall ſpeak Spondanus Strab Suidas thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thro tranflation Trojan troops Troy Ulyffes uſe verfe Virgil whofe words