His stature reach'd the sky." --"Paradise Lost," iv. 986. 140 The Abantes seem to have been of Thracian origin. 141 I may, once for all, remark that Homer is most anatomically correct as to the parts of the body in which a wound would be immediately mortal. 142 --_Ćnus,_ a fountain almost proverbial for its coldness. 143 Compare Tasso, Gier. Lib., xx. 7: "Nuovo favor del cielo in lui niluce E 'l fa grande, et angusto oltre il costume. Gl' empie d' honor la faccia, e vi riduce Di giovinezza il bel purpureo lume." 144 "Or deluges, descending on the plains, Sweep o'er the yellow year, destroy the pains Of lab'ring oxen, and the peasant's gains; Uproot the forest oaks, and bear away Flocks, folds, and trees, an undistinguish'd prey." Dryden's Virgil ii. 408. 145 --_From mortal mists._ "But to nobler sights Michael from Adam's eyes the film removed." "Paradise Lost," xi. 411. 146 --_The race of those._ "A pair of coursers, born of heav'nly breed, Who from their nostrils breathed ethereal fire; Whom Circe stole from her celestial sire, By substituting mares produced on earth, Whose wombs conceived a more than mortal birth. Dryden's Virgil, vii. 386, sqq. 147 The belief in the existence of men of larger stature in earlier times, is by no means confined to Homer. 148 --_Such stream, i.e._ the _ichor,_ or blood of the gods. "A stream of nect'rous humour issuing flow'd, Sanguine, such as celestial spirits may bleed." "Paradise Lost," vi. 339. 149 This was during the wars with the Titans. 150 --_Amphitryon's son,_ Hercules, born to