Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 300
he background; but there are additions which make the interpretation clearer. The nature of the ground, evidently a clearing in a forest, is more clearly marked. Of the Thracians, one is standing up, one has his head severed. A second figure of Diomedes appears, who rushes on the reclining figures,… … The standing Thracian has evidently been waked, and is giving the alarm. Homer does not tell us that any of the Thracians was awaked ; but he comes near it, for he says that when Diomedes came to King Rhesus he was breathing hard, for an evil dream stood above his head. The second figure of Diom-…
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