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In the case of Agamemnon, moreover, see how parsimonious Homer was with the gods, and with what propriety he doled out his comparisons! He says that in eyes and head he was like to Zeus, in waist to Ares, and in chest to Poseidon,[*] dismembering the man for the sake of comparing him with all those gods. Again, he says that someone is a match for devastating Ares ;[*] and just so with the rest of themthe Phrygian, the son of Priam, is beautiful as a god,[*] and the son of Peleus is often godlike.[*] But I will return to the parallels that concern women. You know, naturally, that he says:

Artemis she resembleth, or else Aphrodite the golden,
Odyssey17, 37 (19, 54), of Penelope. also,
Just so Artemis runneth adown the slope of a mountain.
Odyssey6, 102, of Nausicaa.

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