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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 37 — STATIUS'S THEBAIS.

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This expression, which is not in Statius, is common with Dryden, as in his Virg. Æn. x. 582:

And from Strymonius hewed his better hand.

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