Part 77 (2/2)
57 Eustathius, after Heraclides Ponticus and others, allegorizes this apparition, as if the appearance of Minerva to Achilles, unseen by the rest, was intended to point out the sudden recollection that he would gain nothing by inteer, and only gratify it by withdrawing his services
The same idea is rather cleverly worked out by Apuleius, ”De Deo Socratis”
58 Coue Dropp'd e woman drop as an honey-comb”
59 Salt water was chiefly used in lustrations, fro supposed to possess certain fiery particles Hence, if sea-water could not be obtained, salt was thrown into the fresh water to be used for the lustration Menander, in Clem Alex vii p713, hydati perriranai, embalon alas, phakois
60 The persons of heralds were held inviolable, and they were at liberty to travel whither they would without fear of molestation
Pollux, Onoiven to old men, and they were believed to be under the especial protection of Jove and Mercury
61 His hter of Nereus and Doris, as courted by Neptune and Jupiter When, however, it was known that the son to whoreater than his father, it was deterreat difficulty, succeeded in obtaining her hand, as she eluded hi various forh her attempts to see whether they were immortal, and Achilles would have shared the same fate had not his father rescued hi him into the waters of the Styx, with the exception of that part of the heel by which she held hiin Fab 54
62 Thebe was a city of Mysia, north of Adramyttium
63 That is, defrauds me of the prize allotted oes still further in his account of the service rendered to Jove by Thetis:
”Nay hty Jove She loosed”--Dyce's ”Calaber,” s 58
65 --_To Fates averse_ Of the gloohout the Homeric poeel well observes, ”This power extends also to the world of Gods-- for the Grecian Gods are her than mortal man, yet, co with himself”--'Lectures on the Drama' v p 67
66 It has been observed that the annual procession of the sacred shi+p so often represented on Egyptian monuments, and the return of the deity from Ethiopia after soin of Thebes, and of the worshi+p of Jupiter Ae from Diodorus about the holy shi+p, ”that this procession is represented in one of the great sculptured reliefs on the temple of Karnak The sacred shi+p of Ammon is on the shore with its whole equip by another boat It is therefore on its voyage This must have been one of theto the interpretation of antiquity, Homer alludes to it when he speaks of Jupiter's visit to the Ethiopians, and his twelve days'
absence”--Long, ”Egyptian Antiquities” vol 1 p 96 Eustathius, vol 1 p 98, sq (ed Basil) gives this interpretation, and likewise an allegorical one, which ill spare the reader
67 --_Atoned,_ ie reconciled This is the proper andof the word, as may be seen from Taylor's remarks in Calmet's Dictionary, p110, ofback their necks while they cut their throats ”If the sacrifice was in honour of the celestial Gods, the throat was bent upwards towards heaven; but if made to the heroes, or infernal deities, it was killed with its throat toward the ground”-- ”Elgin Marbles,” vol i p81
”The jolly crew, unmindful of the past, The quarry share, their plenteous dinner haste, Some strip the skin; so, in the caldrons boil; So entrails broil
Stretch'd on the grassy turf, at ease they dine, Restore their strength with il,” i 293
69 --_Crown'd, ie_ filled to the brioblets with floas of later date
70 --_He spoke,_ &c ”When a friend inquired of Phidias what pattern he had formed his Oly the lines of the first Iliad in which the poet represents the nifying that the genius of Homer had inspired him with it Those who beheld this statue are said to have been so struck with it as to have asked whether Jupiter had descended from heaven to show himself to Phidias, or whether Phidias had been carried thither to contein Marbles,” vol xii p124
71 ”So was his will pronounced a the Gods, and by an oath, That shook heav'n's whole circumference, confirm'd”
”Paradise Lost” ii 351