196 Remarks on the Siie of Troy 
“‘Ye are heavenly, and beheld 
“A scene, whereof the faint report alone 
‘“‘Hlath reached our ears, remote and ill- 
informed.”’ Hiad. HT. 250. 
This, or some similar answer, must naturally 
suggest itself to every person, to whom Mr. 
Bryant’s objections are proposed, and would, 
we should have imagined, be deemed satis- 
factory ;—we find, however, that they have 
produced a considerable impression, and will 
therefore attend for a moment to what may 
be urged in reply. 
As to the extraordinary combination of so 
many chiefs in such a cause, it is not without 
a perfect parallel in the annals of our own 
country; for, as Mitford has justly remarked, 
(3) the conquest of Ireland by Henry II. 
was the immediate consequenee of events, in 
every attendant circumstance exactly similar 
to those which ultimately caused the destruc- 
tion of Troy. 
As to the number of the ships, the vessels 
were probably small, and we know that na- 
the exact or peculiar meaning of a single word or phrase, where it does, 
I have consulted friends well versed in the original, and compared their 
translations ‘with Clarke’s Latinone. But the meaning of a particular 
word is'soseldom of importance, that in most eases, Pope’s version, free 
as it is, would’be a’sufficient guide. 
(3) Mitford’s “History of Greece,’ Vol. I. page 63. 
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