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Babel

Luxon, Thomas H., ed. The Milton Reading Room, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton, October, 2014.

The famous tower of Babel, erected by Nimrod; see Genesis 11:4 and PL 12.38-62. See also Pieter Bruegel's depiction of the Tower of Babel (1563).
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