Read The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems Online
Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
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The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (213 page)
7071
memorial structures, commemorating military success
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7073
noteworthy (interesting)
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7074
citadel (fortress) built on top of a hill
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7075
majestic, dignified
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7076
part of the Capitoline Hill
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7077
of limits/bounds
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7079
adjusted, placed
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7080
optical instrument
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7081
craftsmen [four syllables, second and fourth accented]
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7082
stream, flowing
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7083
magistrates
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7084
governors of provinces
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7085
attendants carrying bundles of rods with an ax wrapped inside, the blade projecting
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7087
one-tenth of a legion
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7088
cavalry: one-tenth of a wing (flank)
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7089
garments, dress, clothing
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7090
from Rome to Brindisi, seaport in southern Italy
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7091
from Rome north to the Adriatic Sea
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7092
Aswan, in southern Egypt on the Upper Nile
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7093
region in the Upper Nile, considered (but in fact not) an island
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7094
North African king, ca. 105
B
.
C
.
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7095
i.e., the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest African coast
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7096
Chersonese: the Malay Peninsula
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7097
Ceylon or Sumatra
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7099
Gaul (now France)
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7101
people east of Germany, between the Vistula and the Volga
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7102
the Sea of Azov, northeast of and connected to the Black Sea
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7104
distant, remote, secluded
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7106
island south of Naples
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7107
Roman province (Naples, Pompeii, etc.)
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7108
Sejanus, finally executed in
A
.
D
. 29
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7111
of citrus wood
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7112
marble from the Atlas mountains in North Africa
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7113
three then-famous Italian wines, from Sezza, near Rome, and Cales and Falernia, near Mt. Vesuvius
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7114
two then-famous Greek wines: see Horace,
Odes
3:19
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7116
foreign, bizarre, uncouth
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7118
(1) arrogant, (2) outrageous
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7122
(1) theatrical performances, (2) their daily existence
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7123
overly refined, soft
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7124
“besides my own”
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7126
fussy, fastidious
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7129
liberty, licence
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7130
see Exodus 20:2–3, Deuteronomy 6:12–15, and Matthew 4:8–10
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7132
grant, gift
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7135
the lesser rulers
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7136
i.e., blowing from the four quarters of the earth
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7137
called: that is, Satan is currently called god both of earth and of Hell
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7140
most authoritative
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7141
“Then spake Jesus…. saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat…. Matthew 23:1–2
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7142
see Luke 2:42–49
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7144
the first five books of the Old Testament
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7145
heathen, pagans
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7146
to admiration: wonderfully
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7147
appropriate [adjective]
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7150
affording a wide view
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7151
i.e., either “native” or “hospitable” to those not native
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7152
(1) niche, coastal indentation, (2) privacy
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7153
public park northwest of Athens
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7154
secluded place
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7155
nightingale
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7156
mountain near Athens
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7157
river running from Mt. Hymettus south into the sea
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7159
developed, produced (as Alexander’s tutor)
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7160
park east of Athens
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7161
Athenian colonnade, with painted frescoes, where Zeno the Stoic taught
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7162
measures, rhythms: the term was used both in music and in poetry
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7164
Aeolic: Greek dialect used by Sappho, Alcaeus, and others
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7166
(1) the Doric dialect of Greek, (2) the choral lyric poetry written in that dialect (as, e.g., by Pindar, who was himself a speaker of the Boeotian dialect)
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7167
“born in/of Meles”: the River Meles, in Asia Minor, was one of Homer’s supposed birthplaces [five syllables, first, third, and fifth accented]
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7170
iambic trimeter, used in dramatic scenes
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7172
full of wisdom
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7173
make one’s way, go, resort
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7174
ruled, commanded, controlled, directed
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7175
Athenian harbor building, construction of which was suspended in 339
B
.
C
. because of Demosthenes, 384–322, famous Athenian orator
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7177
region between Balkans and Greece: famous for Philip II and his son, Alexander the Great
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7178
Persian king; on Sparta’s side in the war against Athens
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7180
sweetly flowing
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7181
given an additional name, title, or epithetic description
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7182
Aristotle and his pupils were peripatetic (“walking about”)
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7183
Epicurus and his followers
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7184
consider, meditate upon
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7187
acknowledged, admitted
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7190
Pyrrho, Sceptic founder
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7193
wishes, desires
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7194
stratagems, contrivances
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7195
claim, assume
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7197
as if they were
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7198
select, of special excellence
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7202
sprinkled, spread
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7203
impersonating, playing the part of
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7204
means of adornment/embellishment, veneer, paint
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7206
in those cases where
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7207
politicians
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