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