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§ 128.
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Pausanias, 5, 11, § 2; and Sophocles, Philoctetes, 445.
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Virgil, Æneid, 6, 57.
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Statius, Achilleid, 1, 269.
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Sophocles, Ajax.
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See Commentary.
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Servius Honoratus, Commentary on Æneid (3, 402). According to Sophocles (Philoctetes), the wound was occasioned by the bite of a serpent that guarded the shrine of the nymph Chryse, on an islet of the same name near Lemnos.
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Virgil, Æneid, 2.
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Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.– Æneid. 2, 49.
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Byron, Childe Harold.
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Hecuba's exclamation, "Not such aid nor such defenders does the time require," has become proverbial.
Non tali auxilio nec defensoribus istis
Tempus eget.– Æneid, 2, 521.
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Euripides, – Troades, Hecuba, Andromache.
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According to Euripides (Helen), and Stesichorus, it was a semblance of Helen that Paris won; the real Helen went to Egypt.
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Dyer, The Fleece.
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Milton, Comus.
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Æschylus, Agamemnon.
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Æschylus, Choëphori; Sophocles, Electra; Euripides, – Electra, Orestes.
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Æschylus, Eumenides.
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Euripides, Iphigenia among the Tauri.
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Sonnet by Andrew Lang.
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For the authorship of the Odyssey, see § 298 (3); and for translations, see corresponding section of the Commentary.
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Odyssey, 9.
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§ 141.
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Odyssey, 10.