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