The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (176 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
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1522
just barely
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1523
stunned, bewildered
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1524
unmindful: this is not Lethe, which induces forgetting (oblivion), as Milton makes clear, later, in Book 2, lines 606–10
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1526
defeated, overthrown, balked, frustrated
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1527
a guarantee, security
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1529
overwhelmed
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1530
wicked, fatal
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1533
Italian: Galileo
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1534
practical scientist, learned man
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1535
discover, make known
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1536
spotted, patchy
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1537
admiral’s ship, flagship
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1538
straight slender stick
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1539
difficult, troublesome
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1541
beat/shone strongly
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1542
covered, roofed
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1543
nevertheless
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1544
burning, glowing
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1545
in a trance, overpowered
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1546
monastery south of Florence
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1548
give shelter
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1549
rushlike/reedlike plants
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1550
the constellation of Orion is associated with winter storms
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1551
troubled, agitated
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1552
Egyptian pharaoh who oppressed the captive Israelites
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1553
Egyptian (Memphis = city in ancient Egypt)
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1554
knights, horsemen
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1555
treacherous
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1556
temporary residents
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1557
where the captive Israelites lived, in Egypt
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1558
brought low, cast down
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1559
stupefaction
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1560
revolting, immense
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1562
insensibility, mental prostration
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1563
power, force, strength
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1564
banners, flags
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1566
impale, pierce through
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1568
briskly, quickly
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1572
floating/whirling through the air
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1574
descend, settle
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1576
burning stone, sulfur
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1577
Goths and Vikings
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1582
at first, originally
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1583
God’s record of the righteous
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1584
toleration, consent
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1589
of mixed and disorderly composition
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1590
at a distance
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1591
most, the bulk
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1593
to face (defiantly)? await?
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1594
desecrated, violated
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1595
to insult, defy
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1596
percussion instrument, tambourinelike
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1597
savage, cruel, fierce, harsh
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1598
a Semitic people who lived in Jordan; they were related to the Israelites but often at war with them
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1600
in Bashan region; included in the sixth province of Solomon’s kingdom
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1601
modern Bashan
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1602
river flowing into the Dead Sea
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1603
shameless, daring
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1605
scandalous, disgraceful
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1606
Gehinnom, valley SW of Jerusalem
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1607
high place in the valley of Hinnom, where children were sacrificed to Moloch
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1608
place of future torment, hell
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1609
symbol, model
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1610
the Moabites’ god
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1612
object of fear/reverence
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1613
like the Ammonites, the Moabites were located in Jordan and related to the Israelites, with whom they often warred
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1614
see Deuteronomy 3:12
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1615
a mountain in the Moabite region: see Isaiah 15:2
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1616
linked to Nebo (see footnote 219, above)
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1617
Hesebon = Moabite city
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1618
see Isaiah 15:5
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1619
Sehon = king of the Amorites, the pre-Israelite people of Canaan
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1620
Moabite town
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1621
Moabite city
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1622
the Dead Sea
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1623
Peor = Baal-Peor, Canaanite god associated with sexual orgies on Mt. Peor, in the Moabite region
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1624
Israelite campsite near Jericho
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1625
i.e., Egypt
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1626
lewd, lascivious
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1627
the Mount of Olives: see also line 403, above, and the footnote thereto
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1628
hard by = close to
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1629
king of Judea, 637–608
B.C
., a religious reformer
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1630
a major Mesopotamian river
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1631
the River Esor
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1632
plural of “Baal,” in Hebrew
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1633
plural of “Ashtoreth,” in Hebrew
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1634
uncombined, unmixed
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1636
cumbersome: clumsy, unwieldy
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1638
ill will, hatred
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1639
unfilled, uncrowded
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1640
vile, wretched [four syllables, first and third accented]
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1641
see line 422, above
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1642
Sidon, Syrian city of the Phoenicians; now in Lebanon
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1643
hill in Jerusalem, site of the Temple
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1644
displeasing
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1645
excessively fond of one’s wife
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1647
or Tammuz, Babylonian-Sumerian god (known elsewhere as Adonis, Osiris, etc.), carried off to the underworld but redeemed by Ishtar, chief Babylonian-Sumerian goddess, because life on earth had withered in his absence
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1648
the river, which originates in Lebanon
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1649
antechamber/entranceway to the temple
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1650
prophet of the Babylonian exile of the Israelites, sixth century B.C.
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1651
the southern of the two kingdoms into which Israel was divided, after Sol omon’s death; the northern kingdom retained the name Israel
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1652
captured by the Philistines
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1653
placed in Dagon’s temple, overnight the ark toppled Dagon’s statue, knocking off the head and both hands
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1654
threshold-edge
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1655
(1) still, at that time, (2) nevertheless
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1656
Ashdod, major Philistine city
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1657
a major Philistine city
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1658
a major Philistine city
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1659
Ekron: a major Philistine city
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1660
a major Philistine city
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1662
river in Damascus [trisyllabic, first and third accented]
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