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[205]. Hayman’s ed. of the Odyssey, vol. ii. p. 174; Pliny, Hist. Nat. xvi. 46.
[206]. Gubernatis, Mythologie des Plantes, t. ii. p. 337.
[207]. Descriptio Græciæ, v. 14.
[208]. Iliad, xiii. 389; xvi. 482-84.
The author of the Iliad ascribes no under-world relationships either to the white or to the black poplar. His sole funereal tree is the elm. Relating the misfortunes of her family, Andromache says:
Fell Achilles’ hand
My sire Aetion slew, what time his arms
The populous city of Cilicia raz’d,
The lofty-gated Thebes; he slew indeed,