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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845

Note 10 — Part I. Concluded.

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Laughter from the fields of ocean.

"—Many readers will recall, though at the moment of writing my own thoughts did

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recall, the well-known passage in the Prometheus—

——ωονλιων τε κυματων Ανηζιθμον Ϛελασμα

"Oh multitudinous laughter of the ocean billows!" It is not clear whether Æschylus contemplated the laughter as addressing the ear or the eye.

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