If Milton's true muse, or so he hopes or so he wants us to believe, has a Christian origin, then this counter-muse is unquestionably classical.

如果弥尔顿他望或想要我们相信，他真正的缪斯女神，有一个基督教的原型，那么这位与缪斯女神相对的人物毫无疑问是经典的。

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He would identify the goddess Isis with some Greek goddess.

将艾西斯女神与某个希腊女神联系起来。

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After the passage is over, Milton addresses Alpheus, a river god -the god who was noted for plunging the course of his river underground in order to chase the nymph Arethuse who had been turned into a fountain.

这段结束后，弥尔顿引用了河神阿尔甫斯,那位因私底下掀起河流的波浪而闻名的神,以此来与被变成海底之泉的女神阿托瑞萨相互融合。

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