...the siege by Alexander. Verse 165. " Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz, yearly wounded." Milton's Paradise Lost, 1, ver. 446. The festivals in honour of Adonis (supposed to be the same personage...

...miserable idolaters. An instance of their worship is thus described by the poet before named. ' Tammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In am'rous ditties all a summer's day : While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea,...

...annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian Damsels to lament his fate In amorous dittyes all a Summers day, While smooth Adonis from his native Rock Ran...Sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded ... (I, 446-452) The logically superfluous allusion to a "Summers day," like the startling adjective...

...informs the speaker's tone is most fully illustrated by the passage which follows in the catalogue: Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...allur'd The Syrian Damsels to lament his fate In amorous dittyes all a Summers day, While smooth Adonis from his native Rock Ran purple to the Sea, suppos'd...

...lines. The river of Adona is probably derived from Milton and Spenser. Milton's "smooth Adonis," who "from his native Rock / Ran purple to the Sea, suppos'd with blood of Thammuz yearly wounded" (Paradise Lost, I. 450-52), combines the pastoral Adonis, nature-cult hero Thammuz, and dying Orpheus...

...nombre verdadero era Thammuz, o Tammuz, Compárese Mtlten, en su Paradise Lcst (1667): Thammuz carne next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd...Damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a Summers day, While smooth Adonis from his native Rock Ran purple to the Sea, suppos'd with blood Of...

...•ays, Paradise Lost, book i. 445: — Tammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In amorous...Adonis, from his native rock, Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Tammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Zion's daughters with like heat....

...describes the cult of Adonis at Byblos, and Milton (Par. Lost i.446-453) sumptuously versifies both texts: ...Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in...allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous dittyes all a Summers day, While smooth Adonis from his native Rock Ran purple to the Sea, suppos'd...

...-wound in Lehanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament bis fate In amorous ditties all a summer's daj ; While smooth Adonis, from his native rock, Ran purple to the sea — supposed with blood Of Thammuz, yearly wounded : the love-tale Infectod Sion's danghters with like...

...the fallen angels, now become devils. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, 450 While smooth Adonis0 from his native rock 0 cedarn: of cedar trees. ° Nard (spikenard) and cassia...