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_Burke's "Mighty Boar of the Forest"_ (Vol. iii., p. 493.; Vol. iv., p.
391.).--It is not, I hope, too late to notice that Burke's description of
Junius is an allusion neither to the _Iliad_, xiii. 471., nor to Psalm
lxxx. 8-13., but to the _Iliad_, xvii. 280-284. I cannot resist quoting the
lines containing the simile, at once for their applicability and their own
innate beauty:
"[Greek: Ithusen de dia promachôn, sui eikelos alkên]
[Greek: Kapriôi, host' en oressi kunas thalerous t' aizêous]
[Greek: Rhêidiôs ekedassen, elixamenos dia bêssas.]
[Greek: Ôs huios Telamônos]."