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Six spiry serpents their uplifted heads
Cœrulean darted at the wearer's throat,
Splendor diffusing as the various bow
Fix'd by Saturnian Jove in showery clouds,
A sign to mortal men.

*

Six
τρεῖς ἑκάτερθ᾽-three on a side, This is evidently the proper
punctuation, though it differs from that of all the editions that I have seen. I
find it no where but in the Venetian Scholium.I-TR.

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It is finely remarked by Trollope, that,
of all the points of resemblance which may be discovered between the sentiments, associations and expressions of Homer, and those of the sacred writings, this similitude is perhaps the most striking; and there can be little doubt that it exhibits a traditional vestige of
the patriarchal record of God's covenant.

— Eliot Felton.