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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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I.560 - I.799

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