The
inhabitants
were greatly
devoted to the worship of Apollo.
devoted to the worship of Apollo.
Iliad - Pope
104 "Adam, the goodliest man of men since born,
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. '
--"Paradise Lost," iv. 323.
105 --_? setes' tomb. _ Monuments were often built on the sea-coast, and of
a considerable height, so as to serve as watch-towers or land marks.
See my notes to my prose translations of the "Odyssey," ii. p. 21,
or on Eur. "Alcest. " vol. i. p. 240.
106 --_Zeleia,_ another name for Lycia.
The inhabitants were greatly
devoted to the worship of Apollo. See Muller, "Dorians," vol. i. p.
248.
107 --_Barbarous tongues. _ "Various as were the dialects of the
Greeks--and these differences existed not only between the several
tribes, but even between neighbouring cities--they yet acknowledged
in their language that they formed but one nation were but branches
of the same family. Homer has 'men of other tongues:' and yet Homer
had no general name for the Greek nation. "--Heeren, "Ancient Greece,"
Section vii. p. 107, sq.
_ 108 The cranes. _
"Marking the tracts of air, the clamorous cranes
Wheel their due flight in varied ranks descried:
And each with outstretch'd neck his rank maintains,
In marshall'd order through th' ethereal void. "
Lorenzo de Medici, in Roscoe's Life, Appendix.
See Cary's Dante: "Hell," canto v.
_ 109 Silent, breathing rage.