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THE RETURN OF ACHILLES.
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arises from that discord. Thus heat and cold, moist and dry, are in a continual war, yet upon this depends the fertility of the earth and the beauty of the creation. So that Jupiter, who, according to the Greeks, is the soul of all, may well be said to smile at this contention."[1] Those readers who may not be satisfied with this solution must be content to take the burlesque as it stands.

  1. Eustathius, as quoted by Pope.