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the pygmies, marks only the clamour* with which they urge their 

 flight. Oppian describes them as darkening the air with their 

 broad and continuous files. 



-O^vi^iS ag 



tivTi imp xXocyyi} yepccvaiv uiXn n^a,vo^i w^o 

 Ait £T( up yii^oDia. (pvyov, xai a^i(r<parov of^Qpov 

 KXayyj) rutye uirovToti cur aixiuvoio gotntm, 

 Av5fa(r< 7!!vyf/,a.ioitri (poiiov, Ka,i jcri^a, (pi^nffoci' 

 Hi^iKi h' K^ct Toiiyi Kcixrjv sgtSa ^goipi^otrui. 



II. B. 



Cli 3' OT^ «t' «<S-(ow&iii re kui atyvrroio ^o»up 

 T'^l'iirtrrii yi^Ktuv X0P02 tgyira.! rji^o^avm 

 ArXavTOS viipoivTa, •xa.yov, Koct Xi^'f^oi (puyntrai, 

 TlvyfjLUnuv t' oXiyoS^mnav uysurivu yivi^Xu. 

 Vf!(ri 3' «^' iTTTUU^epriffi zara 2TIXA2 iv^Hg eTU-oi 

 Higa. Tt (nciuna-i, xcct AAATTON OFMCN e;^**"/. 



0pp. Al. A. 



As when from ^thiop, or Egyptian springs, 



The cranes' siirill chorus spread tin ir soaring wings ; 



What time the feeble pigmy race they fly. 



The snows of Atlas, and tlie wintry sky : — 



In files unbroken moves the long array, 



Their shade deep-darkening all th' ethereal way. 



* Pope saj'B " with noise and order, war and dtath they bring." But no order is nitn- 

 tioned in the original, nor should it in the translatii n ; lor Homer's object is to contrast the 

 disorderly approach of the Trojans to the wcli-disciplined march of the Greeks. 



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