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