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240. 106 -- _Zeleia,_ another name for Lycia.
The inhabitants were greatly devoted to the worship of Apollo.
See Muller, "Dorians," vol.i.
p. 248. 107 -- _Barbarous tongues._ "Various as were the dialects of the Greeks--and these differences existed not only between the several tribes, but even between neighbouring cities--they yet acknowledged in their language that they formed but one nation were but branches of the same family.
Homer has 'men of other tongues:' and yet Homer had no general name for the Greek nation."-- Heeren, "Ancient Greece," Section vii.p.107, sq. _ 108 The cranes._ "Marking the tracts of air, the clamorous cranes Wheel their due flight in varied ranks descried: And each with outstretch'd neck his rank maintains, In marshall'd order through th' ethereal void." Lorenzo de Medici, in Roscoe's Life, Appendix. See Cary's Dante: "Hell," canto v. _ 109 Silent, breathing rage._ "Thus they, Breathing united force with fixed thought, Moved on in silence." "Paradise Lost," book i.
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