289.
115 -- _Antenor,_ like AEneas, had always been favourable to the restoration of Helen.

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116 "His lab'ring heart with sudden rapture seized He paus'd, and on the ground in silence gazed.
Unskill'd and uninspired he seems to stand, Nor lifts the eye, nor graceful moves the hand: Then, while the chiefs in still attention hung, Pours the full tide of eloquence along; While from his lips the melting torrent flows, Soft as the fleeces of descending snows.
Now stronger notes engage the listening crowd, Louder the accents rise, and yet more loud, Like thunders rolling from a distant cloud." Merrick's "Tryphiodorus," 148, 99.
117 Duport, "Gnomol.

Homer," p.

20, well observes that this comparison may also be sarcastically applied to the _frigid_ style of oratory.
It, of course, here merely denotes the ready fluency of Ulysses.
118 -- _Her brothers' doom._ They perished in combat with Lynceus and Idas, whilst besieging Sparta.