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��verb meaning " to live ; " hence an appropriate name for the mother of mankind.

Page 227, lines 185-189.

The birds pursued by the eagle and the hart and hind chased by the lion foreshadow the driving of Adam and Eve from the garden by Michael.

Page 227, lines 213, 214. When the Angels met.

" And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host : and he called the name of that place Mahanaim." Gen. xxxii. 1,2.

Page 227, lines 216-220. On the, flaming mount . . . in Dothan.

And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man ; and he saw : and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." 2 Kings vi. 17. The army sent by the king of Syria to apprehend Elisha was smitten with blindness.

Page 228, lines 242, 243. Melibcean.

From Meliboea, in Thessaly, where a fish was caught from which a famous purple dye was extracted. Sarra is the "Latinized form of Tsor, or Tyre ; " the famous Tyrian purple is meant. For the word grain, see note on Book V. line 285.

Page 229, line 383. Our second Adam.

Christ.

Page 229, lines 385-411.

This is the most extended of the many pas- sages in which Milton shows his delight in the sonority and dim but gorgeous suggestiveness of proper names. The less familiar of these are : Temir, better known as Tamurlaine, king of what is now Tartary; Paquin, Pekin, seat of the Chinese (Sinsean) kings ; Agra and Labor, in India : the golden Chersonese, i. e. the penin- sula of Malacca ; Ercoco, the northernmost port of Abyssinia, whose ruler has still the title of Negus ; Mombaza, Quiloa, and Melind, on the east coast of Africa, seats of the less (i. e. lesser) maritime kings ; Sofala, farther south, once thought to be the Ophir mentioned in the Bible, whence Solomon obtained his gold ; Al- mansor, Susa (Tunis), and Tremisen, all in the Barbary States of North Africa. The Sultan is called " Turchestan-born " because the Turks, or Tartars, came from Turkestan. "Geryon's sons " are the Spaniards, so called from the mon- ster Geryon, a mythic king of Spain.

Page 230, line 414. Purged with euphrasy and rue.

Euphrasy, "eye-bright," and rue were both believed to have the power of strengthening and spiritualizing the vision.

Page 230, line 433. Sard.

An old form of sward.

Page 231, line 487. Marasmus.

Consumption.

Page 232, line 573. Fusil.

Cast in a mould.

Page 232, line 574. On the hither side a differ- ent sort.

The sons of Seth are nearer Paradise than the sons of Cain.

��Page 233, line 626. Erelong to swim at large.

I. e. in the Deluge.

Page 233, line (565. Of middle age one rising.

The patriarch Enoch, 365 years old.

Page 234, lines 694, 695. And for glory done, etc.

Masson interprets these difficult lines by sup- plying words from preceding clauses : " To be styled great conquerors shall be held the high- est pitch of triumph for glory achieved."

Page 235, line 773. Which neither his fore- knowing.

Neither, without the following nor, a difficult construction in English, Milton imitates from the Latin.

Page 235, line 831. Horned, flood.

A translation of the classic " taurif ormis ; " the sweeping of the water to either side as it meets an obstacle gave rise to the epithet.

Page 236, line 866. Listed.

Striped.

Page 237. BOOK XII.

Page 237, lines 1-5.

These five lines were added in the second edi- tion, when the original tenth book was divided into two.

Page 237, line 24. Till one shall rise.

Nimrod, whose name Milton derives, line 36, from a Hebrew word meaning " to rebel."

Page 237, line 42. The mouth of Hell.

For a moment Milton loses sight of his cos- mology and falls back into the classic concep- tion of a subterranean Hell.

Page 238, line 85. Dividual.

Separate or separable.

Page 238, line 101. The irreverent son.

Ham.

Page 238, line 113. One faithful man.

Abraham, said to be "bred up in idol wor- ship " because Terah, his father, " served other gods."

Page 239, line 153. A son, and of his son a grandchild.

Isaac and Jacob.

Page 239, line 160. A younger son.

Joseph.

Page 239, line 191. The river-dragon.

"Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers." Ezekiel xxix. 3.

Page 241, line 310. Joshua, whom the Gentiles Jesus call.

As Joshua means Savior in Hebrew, the. Greek writers frequently translated it by the word Jesus. The roots of the two words are identical.

Page 241, line 338. Heaped to the popular sum.

I. e. added to the sum of sins committed by the people.

Page 241, lines 355-360. Their strife pollution brings.

In the person of Antiochus Epiphanes, who, coming to Jerusalem to settle the dissension for the high-priesthood, polluted the temple by entering it. The " stranger," to whom the sceptre is lost, is Pompey. The ruler appointed

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