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768.
82 It was the herald's duty to make the people sit down.

"A _standing_ agora is a symptom of manifest terror (II.Xviii.

246) an evening agora, to which men came elevated by wine, is also the forerunner of mischief ('Odyssey,' iii.

138)."-- Grote, ii.p.91, _note._ 83 This sceptre, like that of Judah (Genesis xlix.

10), is a type of the supreme and far-spread dominion of the house of the Atrides.


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