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remain,
Though prostrate Greece shall bleed at every vein:
The raging chief in frantic p****ion lost,
Blind to himself, and useless to his host,
Unskill'd to judge the future by the past,
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Dryden's Virgil, i. 556.
124 --_Cranae's isle, i.e._ Athens. See the "Schol." and Alberti's
"Hesychius," vol. ii. p. 338. This name was derived from one of its
early kings, Cranaus.
125 --_The martial maid._ In the original, "Minerva Alalcomeneis," _i.e.
the defender,_ so called from her temple at Alalcomene in Boeotia.
126 "Anything for a quiet life!"
127 --_Argos._ The worship of Juno at Argos was very celebrated in
ancient times, and she was regarded as the patron deity of that
city. Apul. Met., vi. p. 453; Servius on Virg. Ćn., i. 28.
128 --_A wife and sister._
"But I, who walk in awful state above
The majesty of heav'n, the sister-wife of Jove."
Dryden's "Virgil," i. 70.
So Apuleius, _l. c._ speaks of her as "Jovis germana et conjux, and
so Horace, Od. iii. 3, 64, "conjuge me Jovis et sorore."
129 "Thither came Uriel, gleaming thro