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The Iliad

Note 272 — BOOK XXI.

Alexander Pope translation · Edition 2

Beneath a caldron. “So, when with crackling flames a caldron fries, The bubbling waters from the bottom rise. Above the brims they force their fiery way; Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.” Dryden’s Virgil, vii. 644.

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