[The Iliad of Homer by Homer]@TWC D-Link bookThe Iliad of Homer BOOK XXIV 48/111
But Velleius, vol.i.
p. 3, well observes, that the poet would naturally speak of various towns and cities by the names by which they were known in his own time. 104 "Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.' -- "Paradise Lost," iv.
323. 105 -- _AEsetes' tomb._ Monuments were often built on the sea-coast, and of a considerable height, so as to serve as watch-towers or land marks. See my notes to my prose translations of the "Odyssey," ii.p.
21, or on Eur.
"Alcest." vol.i.p.
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