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[ Iliad, V. 356, speaking of Mars. M.; Iliad, IV. 452. Pope.]
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[ The design of Pliny in this letter is to justify the figurative expressions he had employed, probably, in same oration, by instances of the same warmth of colouring from those great masters of eloquence, Demosthenes and his rival Aesehines. But the force of the passages which he produces from those orators must necessarily be greatly weakened to a mere modern reader, some of them being only hinted at, as generally well known; and the metaphors in several of the others have either lost much of their original spirit and boldness, by being introduced and received in Common language, or cannot, perhaps, he preserved in an English translation. M.]
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[ See 1st Philippic.]
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[ See Demosthenes' speech in defence of Cteisphon.]
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[ See end Olynthiac.]