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Ilium

Hume, Patrick. Annotations on Milton's Paradise Lost London: Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1695. Print.

Call'ed Ilium of Ilus the Son of Tros, who much inlarged it, a City of Phrygia in the Leffer Asia, Renowned for its Extent, Riches, and the Ten Years War and Siege it sustained against united Greece. The Principal Heroes were, Hector, Aeneas, Agamenmnon, Achilles, Nestor, Ulysses, the two Ajaxes, Patroclus, Idomeneus, Diomedes. Immortalized by Homer, in his Iliads, who introduces all the gods fiding in the Quarrel, and therefore here by Milton.
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Related:  Rifl'd the bowels of thir mother,  conclave,  Fontarabbia,  scurff,  Space may produce new Worlds,  attention held them mute,  upheld by old repute,  for his fault,  downward bent,  Eternal Splendors flung [ 610 ] For his revolt,  amerc't,  Bullion,  bossy Sculptures,  Pandæmonium,  considerate Pride Waiting revenge,  Phlegra,  Seraphic Lords and Cherubim,  That in his womb was hid metallic Ore,  imbodied,  about the Hive [ 770 ] In clusters,  Self-rais'd, and repossess,  Pioners,  griesly,  Biserta,  remorse,  who overcomes By force,  ribs of Gold,  to have thir lot in pain,  When Charlemain,  th' event,  awful,  Babilon,  Then that small infantry warr'd on by Cranes,  Thither,  Sits Arbitress,  Baptiz'd or Infidel,  Mulciber,  or Romance,  Of dauntless courage,  He spake,  but half his foe,  Cressets,  puissant,  intrencht,  Naphtha,  Tears such as Angels weep,  beatific,  Uthers,  Browes,  fretted Gold,  Perplexes Monarchs,  some belated Peasant,  New rub'd with Baum,  Distends with pride,  Stands on the blasted Heath,  Thir visages,  Shorn of his Beams,  Words interwove,  they relate,  Belus or Serapis,  hardening in this strength glories,  repulse,  Pigmean Race,  Peerage,  these beyond Compare of mortal prowess,  custome,  As when the Sun,  and what resounds,  Monuments of Fame,  Could merit more,  Swarm'd and were straitn'd; till the Signal giv'n.,  Brusht with the hiss of russling wings,  Theb's,  fame,  Begirt,  impious,  guile,  The fellows of his crime, the followers rather,  testifies,  when Ægypt with Assyria strove,  shall fail to re-ascend,  Brigad,  Cherubim,  assayd,  veins of liquid fire,  Which tempted our attempt,  dim Eclips,  Warr'd on by Cranes,  Hurling defiance,  Alcairo,  Paynim,  Monarch in Heav'n,  Myriads,  his Regal State [ 640 ] Put forth at full,  auxiliar,  Sovran,  Thir Glory witherd,  As when Heavens Fire,  All her Original brightness,  Heav'ns pavement, trod'n Gold,  Ausonian,  Mammon,  but what power of mind,  cruel his eye,  Doric,  Stood like a Towr,  in Bondage, nor th' Abyss Long under darkness cover,  Memphian,  Was not inglorious,  Hateful to utter,  Hath scath'd the Forrest Oaks,  presaging,  Babel,  Aspramont,  How such united force of Gods, how such,  Horizontal misty Air,  From wing to wing, and half enclose him round,  Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond,,  In shape and gesture proudly eminent,  Sat on his faded cheek,  Armoric,  wing'd with speed,  thir stately growth,  Deep scars of Thunder had