FI/D OF HOWER'

IDF

J. JOHNSON, LL.B.

CHAPLAIN TO THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH.

Τάδε δ' ἀεὶ πάρεσθ ̓ ὅμοια, διὰ δὲ τῶν αὐτῶν ἀεὶ.—EPICHARMUS.

THIRD EDITION.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,

By S. Hamilton, Weybriage.

1809.

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ILIAD.

ARGUMENT OF THE THIRTEENTH BOOK.

Neptune engages on the part of the Greecians. The battle proceeds. Deïphobus advances to combat, but is repulsed by Meriones, who, losing his spear, repairs to his tent for another. Teucer slays Imbrius, and Hector Amphimachus. Neptune, under the similitude of Thoas, exhorts Idomeneus. Idomeneus, having armed himself in his tent, and going forth to battle, meets Meriones. After discourse held with each other, Idomeneus accommodates Meriones with a spear, and they proceed to battle. Idomeneus slays Othryoneus and Asius. Deïphobus assails Idomeneus, but, his spear glancing over him, kills Hypsenor. Idomeneus slays Alcathous, son-in-law of Anchises. Deïphobus and Idomeneus respectively summon their friends to their assistance, and a contest ensues for the body of Alcathous.

BOOK XIII.

WHEN Jove to Hector and his host had giv'n
Such entrance to the fleet, both hosts he left
To suffer there the agonies and woes
Of ceaseless battle, and his glorious eyes
Averting, on the land look'd down remote

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Of the horse-breeding Thracians, of the bold
Close-fighting Mysian race, and where abide
On milk sustain'd, and blest with length of days,
The Hippomolgi, peaceful, just, and wise*.
No longer now on Troy his eyes he turn'd,
For expectation none within his breast
Surviv'd, that God or Goddess would the Greeks
Approach with succour, or the Trojans more.

Nor Neptune, sov'reign of the boundless Deep,
Look'd forth in vain, but seated on the heights
Of Samothracia forest-crown'd, survey'd
With wonder thence the tumult of the field;
For thence appear'd all Ida, thence the tow'rs
Of lofty Ilium, and the fleet of Greece.

The ocean left, there sitting he deplor'd
The vanquish'd Greecians, and resentment fierce
Conceiv'd and wrath against all-ruling Jove.
At once arising, down the rugged steep

* They are said to have been the only people of Scythia, who were not subdued by Alexander, having by a seasonable embassy made their peace with him. The Greek expression dixaιoráτwv av púπwv does not mean-justest of mankind, as I rendered it at first, for they allowed themselves in many things inconsistent with that character, having their wives, and children, and all, except their *words and their drink, in common. But the poet calls them just, and even juster than most other nations, either on account of their abstinence from flesh, or because, when the Amazons overran Asia, the Hippomolgi refused to join them.--V.