[50] Εξοριζεται, valde prorumpit, liberat terminos, quibus hactenus septum fuit. REISKE.

[51] Heath translates ανεκουφισθην adtollebam corpus, honoris scilicet gratia. Compare Iliad, Ο. 241. αταρ ασθμα και ‛ιδρως παυετ', επει μιν εγειρε Διος νοος αιγιοχοιο, which Pope translates,

"Jove thinking of his pains, they pass'd away:"

in which the idea is much more sublime; for there the thought of a Deity effects what the presence of one does here.

[52] Probably meaning Adonis. See Monk. B.


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