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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, I

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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