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