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You have read your Homer; so that I need say nothing of the Shield of Achilles, with its choral dance, modelled on that which Daedalus designed for Ariadne[1]; nor of the two dancers (‘tumblers, | You have read your Homer; so that I need say nothing of the Shield of Achilles, with its choral dance, modelled on that which Daedalus designed for Ariadne[1]; nor of the two dancers (‘tumblers, | ||
- | >[1] Ariadne | As in Pope's Odyssey: //A figured dance succeeds; such once was seen, in lofty Knossus, for the Cretan queen, formed by Daedalian art; a comely band of youths and maidens, bounding hand in hand, now forth at once, too swift for fight they spring, and, undistinguished, | + | >[1] Ariadne | As in Pope's Odyssey: //A figured dance succeeds; such once was seen, in lofty Knossus, for the Cretan queen, formed by Daedalian art; a comely band of youths and maidens, bounding hand in hand, now forth at once, too swift for fight they spring, and, undistinguished, |
- | >[2] Tumblers | Those who dance on their heads. | + | >[2] Tumblers | Those who dance on their heads.((Select Dialogues: Of Lucian, Translated from the Greek by Thomas Franklin, D.D. The Sungraphein, |
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- | In Thessaly, again, dancing was such a prominent feature, that their rulers and generals were called ‘Dancers-in-chief, | + | In Thessaly, again, dancing was such a prominent feature, that their rulers[1] and generals were called ‘Dancers-in-chief, |
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+ | >[1] Rulers | In Greek, πρoσρχεσηραs, | ||
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