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4708 harnesses
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4709 the lower part of a shield
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4710 showy, glittering
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4711 magnificent, rich
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4712 properly ordered
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4713 attendants
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4714 stewards
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4715 clever trickery/devices
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4716 duty, service
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4717 low
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4718 inspire
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4719 i.e., “heroic poem”
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4720 flight
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4721 held/forced down
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4722 evening star
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4723 duty, function
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4724 mediator
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4725 not long before
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4726 enhanced, advanced, made better
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4727 despite
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4728 come about, happen
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4729 circling
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4730 had observed
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4731 traveled
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4732 equatorial
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4733 chariot
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4734 great circle
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4735 coast averse = side opposite
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4736 that which does not arouse suspicion
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4737 path
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4738 Mesopotamian river, which watered Eden
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4739 profound depth in a body of water
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4740 passing swiftly/suddenly
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4741 enwrapped
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4742 the Black Sea
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4743 the Sea of Azov (a lake, in fact)
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4744 flowing into the Arctic Sea
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4745 Syrian river
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4746 Isthmus of Panama, northeastern (Atlantic) side
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4747 sphere, globe
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4748 close, careful
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4749 judgment, opinion
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4750 urchin, little devil/demon
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4751 tricks
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4752 note, notice
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4753 create
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4754 mental capacity
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4755 complaints
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4756 correcting
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4757 dutiful
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4758 earth
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4759 power
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4760 graded, degrees of
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4761 succession
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4762 enemies
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4763 destruction, ruin, woe
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4764 God
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4765 come back
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4766 i.e., man
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4767 happiness, welfare
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4768 extend
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4769 harmed, spoiled
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4770 place
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4771 an origin
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4772 attendants
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4773 hidden, secret
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4774 peer
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4775 thicket
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4776 chance, fortune
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4777 mazy folds = mazelike object, bent/folded
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4778 forcibly compressed
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4779 convert into flesh
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4780 degrade to the level of an animal
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4781 he whom
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4782 whoever
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4783 go down
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4784 liable, subject
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4785 care
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4786 descend, fall
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4787 insult, contempt
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4788 continued
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4789 circle
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4790 frightful, detestable
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4791 wild beast’s lair
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4792 harmful
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4793 the serpent’s
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4794 secretly
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4795 perfume
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4796 (1) pleasing, (2) thankful
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4797 lacking
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4798 they partake, share in
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4799 discuss
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4800 work at, continue
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4801 getting, doing
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4802 widely, extensively
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4803 continually
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4804 make straight/right
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4805 prescribed authoritatively
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4806 luxuriant
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4807 rebellious, unmanageable
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4808 mocks us
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4809 inclining
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4810 consider
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4811 bursting forth
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4812 set right
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4813 interrupts, stops
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4814 proposed
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4815 purpose
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4816 tedious
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4817 shady paths
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4818 assent
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4819 withdrawal
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4820 whether
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4821 most appropriately
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4822 pure, innocent, unstained
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4823 grave, sober
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4824 steadiness, constancy
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4825 intact, free, untouched
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4826 wanting confidence
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4827 bespatters
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4828 despise
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4829 increase
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4830 overpowered
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4831 bring to bear
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4832 similar, equivalent
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4833 test, endeavor, effort
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4834 attached to his home
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4835 [four syllables, first and third accented]
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4836 made narrower
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4837 alone
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4838 equivalent, equal
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4839 insults, confronts
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4840 judgment, estimate
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4841 forehead, face
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4842 allegation, suspicion
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4843 imagine, fancy
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4844 certain, safe
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4845 to either
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4846 intensely earnest
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4847 man’s
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4848 alert
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4849 prescribe, direct
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4850 prescribes
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4851 (1) attend to, take care of, (2) remind
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4852 remain, exist
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4853 outwardly respectable but in fact not
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4854 bribed
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4855 reason
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4856 if you would
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4857 attest, demonstrate
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4858 more certain/confident
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4859 though still
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4860 i.e., Eve has the last word
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4861 mentioned, noticed in passing
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4862 inclined, determined
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4863 a mountain nymph
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4864 a tree nymph
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4865 Diana’s
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4866 deportment, manner
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4867 skill [noun]
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4868 coarse, inelegant
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4869 innocent
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4870 goddess of flocks and herds
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4871 goddess of fruit
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4872 god of the orchards and fruit, husband of Pomona
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4873 Ceres/Demeter, goddess of Nature’s generative power
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4874 not maternal/the mother of
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4875 injunction
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4876 promised, pledged
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4877 ask him to come to
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4878 luckless, unfortunate
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4879 anticipated
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4880 wicked, wrong, stubborn
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4881 bitter grudge
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4882 planting
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4883 chance, luck, fortune
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4884 cover, overhang, shelter
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4885 gliding
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4886 shrubbery
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4887 work
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4888 imaginary, fabled
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4889 whether
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4890 for whom, and in whose honor, “gardens of Adonis” were planted
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4891 king of the Phaeacians, in Scheria
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4892 Odysseus
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4893 mythical, fabled
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4894 wise
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4895 Solomon
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4896 amorous play
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4897 see 1 Kings 3:1; Solomon’s wife is not named
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4898 marveled at
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4899 confined, shut up
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4900 injure, trouble
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4901 tedded grass = grass spread out for drying
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4902 cattle
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4903 place where milk and cream are stored, butter and cheese are made
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4904 for her = on her account
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4905 plot
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4906 hidden place
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4907 restrained/suppressed/controlled by awe
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4908 pillage, robbery [noun]
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4909 deprived, robbed
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4910 interval
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4911 withdrawn, absent in mind
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4912 dully, stupefiedly
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4913 (1) in compensation, (2) joyously, welcoming
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4914 stirs, rouses
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4915 diverge/depart from
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4916 opportunity
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4917 convenient
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4918 mind
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4919 exalted, eminent
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4920 unformidable, to be dreaded
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4921 if not
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4922 equaled
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4923 turn
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4924 lodger
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4925 directed
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4926 zigzag, wavy
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4927 fiery red
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4928 spirals? (spires = stems, stalks)
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4929 moved gently
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4930 copious
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4931 transformed into serpents
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4932 Hermione/Harmonia = daughter of Ares/Mars and Aphrodite/Venus; Cadmus’ wife [four syllables, second and fourth accented]
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4933 founder and king of Thebes; he and his wife were both turned into snakes by Zeus
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4934 Aesculapius, god of healing, portrayed as a serpent at his temple in Epidaurus, in Argos, Greece
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4935 Ammonian Jove = Egyptian/African Jove, supposed to be the biological father of Alexander the Great, having slept with Olympias, wife of Philip of Macedonia, in the form of a serpent
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4936 Capitoline (Jove) = Roman Jove, supposed to have fathered Scipio Africanus
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4937 eminence
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4938 track
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4939 at an angle, indirect
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4940 a way to approach [second syllable accented]
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4941 cape, promontory
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4942 crooked, twisting
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4943 extravagant
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4944 ring, band, circle
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4945 around
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4946 obedient [bisyllabic, first accented, “-eous” elided]
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4947 herd disguised = Odysseus/Ulysses’ men, turned by Circe into swine
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4948 like an organ or other similar instrument
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4949 thrust, force
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4950 unrivaled
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4951 insatiable
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4952 majestic, commanding
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4953 secluded
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4954 ecstasy
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4955 deficient
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4956 veiled with specious comments
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4957 prelude, preface, introduction
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4958 uttered, gave forth
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4959 (1) hesitate, (2) disagree about
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4960 capable of speech
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4961 from being
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4962 a marvel, extraordinary event
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4963 despicable
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4964 pleasing
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4965 snakes were thought to improve their eyesight by rubbing their eyes on fennel
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4966 snakes were reputed to suck milk from sheep and goats
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4967 are engaged in
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4968 tempting, charming
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4969 quickly
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4970 feeding ground
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4971 was able to
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4972 lacked
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4973 kept, confined
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4974 in between
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4975 vexatious
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4976 mistress, woman of rank and power
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4977 having a Spirit in his body
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4978 power, quality
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4979 demonstrated, tested, learned about
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4980 due number
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4981 that which is born of Nature, Nature’s offspring
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4982 a flat = level ground
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4983 close, near
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4984 guidance [second syllable accented]
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4985 composed, made [second syllable accented]
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4986 oily
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4987 envelops
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4988 a shaking movement
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4989 accompanies
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4990 i.e., the order forbidding that its fruit be eaten
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