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34 See his Epistle to Raphelingius, in Schroeder's edition, 4to, Delphis, 1728
35 Ancient Greece, p 101
36 The best description of this monument will be found in Vaux's ”Antiquities of the British Museum,” p 198 sq The monument itself (Towneley Sculptures, No 123) is well known
37 Coleridge, Classic Poets, p 276
38 Preface to her Homer
39 Hesiod Opp et Dier Lib I vers 155, &c
40 The following argument of the Iliad, corrected in a few particulars, is translated from Bitaube, and is, perhaps, the neatest sueneral, and animated with a noble resentment, retires to his tent; and for a season withdraws hi this interval, victory abandons the arreat enterprise, upon the successful tereneral, at length opening his eyes to the fault which he had committed, deputes the principal officers of his army to the incensed hero, with comnificent presents The hero, according to the proud obstinacy of his character, persists in his anie of entire destruction This inexorable man has a friend; this friend weeps before hio to the war in his stead The eloquence of friendshi+p prevails ifts of the general He lends his are with the chief of the enemy's army, because he reserves to himself the honour of that combat, and because he also fears for his friend's life The prohibition is forgotten; the friend listens to nothing but his courage; his corpse is brought back to the hero, and the hero's ariven up to the ht; he receives froeneral and, thirsting for glory and revenge, enacts prodigies of valour, recovers the victory, slays the enemy's chief, honours his friend with superb funeral rites, and exercises a cruel vengeance on the body of his destroyer; but finally appeased by the tears and prayers of the father of the slain warrior, restores to the old man the corpse of his son, which he buries with due solee, p 177, sqq
41 Vultures: Pope is more accurate than the poet he translates, for Hos and to _all_ kinds of birds But all kinds of birds are not carnivorous
42 --_ie_ during the whole tiradually accomplished
43 Co, heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of horeb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd”
44 --_Latona's son: ie_ Apollo
45 --_King of amemnon
47 --_Sian na put an end to a plague of mice which had harassed that territory Strabo, however, says, that when the Teucri werefrom Crete, they were told by an oracle to settle in that place, where they should not be attacked by the original inhabitants of the land, and that, having halted for the night, a nunaay the leathern straps of their baggage, and thongs of their armour In fulfilment of the oracle, they settled on the spot, and raised a temple to Sminthean Apollo Grote, ”History of Greece,” i p 68, remarks that the ”worshi+p of Shboring territory, dates before the earliest period of Aeolian colonization”
48 --_Cilla,_ a town of Troas near Thebe, so called from Cillus, a sister of Hippodamia, slain by OEnomaus
49 A raceful fane,”
for the custoarlands was of later date
50 --_Bent was his bow_ ”The Apollo of Homer, it must be borne in mind, is a different character from the deity of the sahout both poees of pestilence, the fate of the young child or proer peacefully into the grave, or of the reckless sinner suddenly checked in his career of crime, are ascribed to the arrows of Apollo or Diana The oracular functions of the God rose naturally out of the above fundamental attributes, for who could e Fate perent of her most awful dispensations? The close union of the arts of prophecy and song explains his additional office of God of music, while the arrohich he and his sister were are, no less naturally procured him that of God of archery Of any connection between Apollo and the Sun, whatever may have existed in the more esoteric doctrine of the Greek sanctuaries, there is no trace in either Iliad or Odyssey”--Mure, ”History of Greek Literature,” vol i p 478, sq
51 It has frequently been observed, that in with animals, and that Homer had this fact in mind
52 --_Convened to council_ The public assembly in the heroic times is well characterized by Grote, vol ii p 92 ”It is an assembly for talk Communication and discussion to a certain extent by the chiefs in person, of the people as listeners and sympathizers--often for eloquence, and sometimes for quarrel--but here its ostensible purposes end”
53 Old Jacob Duport, whose ”Gnos, quotes several passages of the ancients, in which reference is made to these words of Homer, in in and an iht-eyed” See the Geriven to Ajax was Techter of Cycnus
56 The Myrmidons dwelt on the southern borders of Thessaly, and took their origin from Myrmido, son of Jupiter and Eurymedusa It is fancifully supposed that the name was derived froence of the ants, and like the the earth; the change from ants to men is founded merely on the equivocation of their name, which resembles that of the ant: they bore a further rese towns or villages, at first they co no other retreats but dens and the cavities of trees, until Ithacus brought theether, and settled them in more secure and comfortable habitations”--Anthon's ”Lempriere”