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Theb's

Luxon, Thomas H., ed. The Milton Reading Room, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton, October, 2014.

The "Heroic Race" are the seven heroes of the Trojan war in Statius' Thebaid and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes.
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