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As Virgil repeatedly speaks of the Trojan camp as 'urbs,' I have ventured here to call it a town.

Virgil's allusion in the word 'nodum' is probably rather to a knot which needs untying than to a knot in wood; but it was necessary to give some metaphor which might be equivalent to his, and the resistance made by a knot in wood to the blade of an axe naturally suggested itself.

The words 'throbs and thrills' are taken from a poem by a friend to whose criticism this work owes much.

'The overture of tyranny's begun' is the younger Symmons's version of Æsch. Ag. 1354,.