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they relate

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

Homer, in Iliad 1. 591-5 and Lucretius in Elegia 7 tell the story of Hephaistos's fall.
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