s: Oh, brave Caledonians, my brothers, my friends, vol. iii., 114.


s: Oh, bright the beaming queen o' night, vol. v., 146.


s: Oh, Castell Gloom! thy strength is gone, vol. i., 221.


s: Oh, Charlie is my darling, vol. iii., 53.


s: Oh, come with me for the queen of night, vol. iii., 59.


s: October winds wi' biting breath, vol. ii., 203.


s: Oh! dear to my heart are my heather-clad mountains, vol. v., 239.


s: Oh! dear were the joys that are past, vol. iii., 62.


s: Oh, dinna ask me gin I lo'e thee, vol. v., 78.


s: Oh, dinna be sae sair cast down, vol. v., 43.


s: Oh, dinna cross the burn, Willie, vol. v., 150.


s: O'er mountain and valley, vol. iii., 169.


s: Of streams that down the valley run, vol. ii., 129.


s: Oh, gentle sleep wilt thou lay thy head, vol. iii., 90.


s: Oh, gin I were where Gadie rins, vol. iv., 117.


s: Oh, grand bounds the deer o'er the mountain, vol. i., 55.


s: Oh, guess ye wha I met yestreen, vol. vi., 129.


s: Oh, hast thou forgotten the birk-tree's shade, vol. iv., 269.


s: Oh, haud na' yer noddle sae hie, ma doo! vol. v., 108.


s: Oh, heard ye yon pibroch sound sad in the gale, vol. ii., 263.


s: Oh! how can I be cheerie in this hameless ha', vol. iii., 125.


s: Oh, how I love the evening hour, vol. v., 265.


s: Oh! I have traversed lands afar, vol. v., 12.


s: Oh! I lo'ed my lassie weel, vol. iii., 253.


s: O June, ye spring the loveliest flowers, vol. v., 44.


s: Oh, lady, twine no wreath for me, vol. i., 302.


s: Oh, lassie! if thou 'lt gang to yonder glen wi' me, vol. iv., 65.


s: Oh, lassie! wilt thou gang wi' me, vol. iii., 65.


s: Old Scotland, I love thee, thou 'rt dearer to me, vol. v., 250.


s: Oh, leave me not! the evening hour, vol. v., 74.


s: Oh, leeze me on the bonnie lass, vol. ii., 178.


s: Oh, let na gang yon bonnie lassie, vol. v., 58.


s: Oh, love the soldier's daughter dear, vol. v., 270.


s: Oh, many a true Highlander, many a liegeman, vol. iii., 280.


s: Oh! Mary, while thy gentle cheek, vol. v., 122.


s: Oh, merrily and gallantly, vol. v., 116.


s: Oh, mind ye the ewe-bughts, Marion, vol. i., 56.


s: Oh, mony a turn of woe and weal, vol. i., 347.


s: Oh, mony a year has come and gane, vol. v., 20.


s: Oh, my lassie, our joy to complete again, vol. ii., 54.


s: Oh! my love 's bonnie, bonnie, bonnie, vol. v., 52.


s: Oh! my love is very lovely, vol. vi., 8.


s: Oh, my love was fair as the siller clud, vol. vi., 173.


s: Once more on the broad-bosom'd ocean appearing, vol. iv., 199.


s: Once more in the Highlands I wander alone, vol. v., 257.


s: Oh, neighbours! what had I to do for to marry? vol. i., 139.


s: On, on to the fields where of old, vol. iv., 56.


s: On fair Clydeside thair wonnit ane dame, vol. v., 119.


s: On thee, Eliza, dwell my thoughts, vol. ii., 173.


s: On the greensward lay William in anguish extended, vol. ii., 163.


s: On the airy Ben-Nevis the wind is awake, vol. iv., 250.


s: On this unfrequented plain, vol. ii., 294.


s: O our childhood's once delightful hours, vol. iii., 198.


s: Oh, saft is the blink o' thine e'e, lassie, vol. v., 208.


s: Oh, sarely may I rue the day, vol. ii., 58.


s: Oh, sair I feel the witching power, vol. iii., 192.


s: Oh, saw ye my wee thing, saw ye my ain thing, vol. i., 82.


s: Oh, saw ye this sweet, bonnie lassie o' mine, vol. ii., 70.


s: Oh, saw ye this sweet, bonnie lassie o' mine, vol. iv., 271.


s: Oh! say na you maun gang awa, vol. iv., 201.


s: Oh! say not life is ever drear, vol. v., 88.


s: Oh! say not o' war the young soldier is weary, vol. iv., 214.


s: Oh! say not, my love, with that mortified air, vol. i., 305.


s: Oh, softly sighs the westlin' breeze, vol. v., 167.


s: Oh, some will tune their mournful strain, vol. i., 232.


s: Oh! stopna, bonnie bird, that strain, vol. iii., 134.


s: O sweet is the blossom o' the hawthorn-tree, vol. v., 187.


s: O sweet is the calm, dewy gloamin', vol iv., 247.


s: Oh, sweet were the hours, vol. iii., 94.


s: Oh, swiftly bounds our gallant bark, vol. vi., 154.


s: O tell me, bonnie young lassie, vol. i., 85.


s: Oh! tell me what sound is the sweetest to hear, vol. iv., 69.


s: Oh, that I were the shaw in, vol. ii., 329.


s: Oh, the auld house, the auld house! vol. i., 224.


s: Oh! the bonnie Hieland hills, vol. iv., 230.


s: Oh! the happy days o' youth are fast gaun by, vol. iii., 266.


s: Oh! the happy time departed, vol. vi., 17.


s: Oh! the sunny peaches glow, vol. iii., 150.


s: O these are not my country's hills, vol. iv., 127.


s: Oh, to bound o'er the bonnie, blue sea, vol. iv., 133.


s: Oh! the land of hills is the land for me, vol. iv., 270.


s: Oh, there 's naebody hears Widow Miller complain, vol. v., 237.


s: Our ain native land, our ain native land, vol. iv., 54.


s: Oh, tuneful voice, I still deplore, vol. i., 44.


s: Our Mary liket weel to stray, vol. iv., 70.


s: Our minstrels a', frae south to north, vol. iii., 95.


s: Our native land, our native vale, vol. iii., 106.


s: Ours is the land of gallant hearts, vol. iv., 51.


s: Oh! wae's me on gowd, wi' its glamour and fame, vol. vi., 148.


s: Oh, wae 's my life, and sad my heart, vol. v., 17.


s: Oh, waft me to the fairy clime, vol. iv., 92.


s: Oh! waste not thy woe on the dead, nor bemoan him, vol. vi., 126.


s: Oh, we aft hae met at e'en, bonnie Peggie, O! vol. iii., 227.


s: Oh, weel's me on my ain man, vol. i., 204.


s: Oh, weel befa' the maiden gay, vol. ii., 64.


s: Oh, weel I lo'e our auld Scots sangs, vol. v., 85.


s: Oh, wha 's at the window, wha, wha, wha? vol. iv., 253.


s: Oh, what are the chains of love made of, vol. iv., 136.


s: Oh, what care I where Love was born, vol. v., 11.


s: Oh! what is in this flaunting town, vol. vi., 203.


s: Oh, when shall I visit the land of my birth, vol. i., 254.


s: Oh, where are the pretty men of yore, vol. v., 129.


s: Oh, where has the exile his home, vol. iv., 250.


s: Oh, where snared ye that bonnie, bonnie bird, vol. v., 14.


s: O! why should old age so much wound us, vol. i., 20.


s: Oh! will ye go to yon burn-side, vol. iii., 68.


s: Oh! will ye walk the wood wi' me, vol. iv., 273.


s: Oh! would that the wind that is sweeping now, vol. iv., 180.


s: Oh! years hae come an' years hae gane, vol. iv., 193.


s: Oh, yes, there 's a valley as calm and as sweet, vol. iv., 255.


s: Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West, vol. i., 290.


s: Peace be upon their banners, vol. v., 224.


s: Preserve us a' what shall we do, vol. ii., 99.


s: Put off, put off, and row with speed, vol. ii., 179.


s: Quoth Rab to Kate, My sonsy clear, vol. ii., 94.


s: Raise high the battle-song, vol. iii., 131.


s: Red gleams the sun on yon hill tap, vol. i., 55.


s: Reft the charm of the social shell, vol. iii., 276.


s: Removed from vain fashion, vol. iv., 80.


s: Returning Spring, with gladsome ray, vol. i., 169.


s: Rise, my love! the moon unclouded, vol. iv., 149.


s: Rise, rise, Lowland and Highlandman, vol. iv., 115.


s: Rise, Romans, rise at last, vol. vi., 216.


s: Rising o'er the heaving billow, vol. v., 29.


s: Saw ye Johnnie comin', quo' she, vol. i. 145.


s: Say wilt thou, Leila, when alone, vol. vi., 40.


s: Scenes of woe and scenes of pleasure, vol. ii., 251.


s: Scotia's thistle guards the grave, vol. iv., 50.


s: See the moon o'er cloudless Jura, vol. iii., 196.


s: See the winter clouds around, vol. ii., 87.


s: Send a horse to the water, ye 'll no mak him drink, vol. i., 219.


s: Shadows of glory, the twilight is parting, vol. vi., 139.


s: Shall I leave thee, thou land to my infancy dear, vol. iii, 99.


s: She died, as die the roses, vol. vi., 256.


s: She died in beauty, like a rose, vol. iv., 177.


s: She 's aff and awa, like the lang simmer day, vol. iv., 124.


s: She 's gane to dwall in heaven, my lassie, vol. iii., 9.


s: She was Naebody's bairn, she was Naebody's bairn, vol. v., 200.


s: Should my numbers essay to enliven a lay, vol. i., 352.


s: Sing a' ye bards wi' loud acclaim, vol. iii., 139.


s: Sing not to me of sunny shores, vol. vi., 155.


s: Sing on, thou little bird, vol. ii., 286.


s: Sister Jeanie, haste, we 'll go, vol. v., 166.


s: Soldier, rest! thy warfare 's o'er, vol. i., 294.


s: Stay, proud bird of the shore, vol. iv., 141.


s: St Leonard's hill was lightsome land, vol. i., 228.


s: Sublime is Scotia's mountain land, vol. vi., 169.


s: Surrounded wi' bent and wi' heather, vol. i., 265.


s: Sweet bard of Ettrick's glen, vol. iv., 75.


s: Sweet 's the gloamin's dusky gloom, vol. vi., 94.


s: Sweet 's the dew-deck'd rose in June, vol. iv., 101.


s: Sweetly shines the sun on auld Edinbro' toun, vol. iv., 239.


s: Talk not of temples--there is one, vol. iii., 152.


s: Tell me, Jessie, tell me why? vol. i., 122.


s: Tell me, dear! in mercy speak, vol. vi., 131.


s: The auld meal mill, oh! the auld meal mill, vol. v., 230.


s: The bard strikes his harp the wild valleys among, vol. ii., 249.


s: The bard strikes his harp the wild woods among, vol. v., 50.


s: The beacons blazed, the banners flew, vol. v., 38.


s: The best o' joys maun hae an end, vol. i., 209.


s: The blackbird's hymn is sweet, vol. iv., 145.


s: The bonnie, bonnie bairn, sits pokin' in the ase, vol. v., 201.


s: The bonniest lass in a' the warld, vol. i., 201.


s: The breath o' spring is gratefu', vol. v., 143.


s: The bride she is winsome and bonnie, vol. i., 148.


s: The bucket, the bucket, the bucket for me, vol. iv., 223.


s: The cantie spring scarce reared her head, vol. iii., 52.


s: The cranreuch's on my head, vol. vi., 107.


s: The dark gray o' gloamin', vol. iv., 243.


s: The dawn is breaking, but lonesome and eerie, vol. iii., 274.


s: The daylight was dying, the twilight was dreary, vol. vi., 72.


s: The dreary reign of winter's past, vol. v., 55.


s: The fairies are dancing, how nimbly they bound, vol. ii., 273.


s: The favouring wind pipes aloft in the shrouds, vol. vi., 26.


s: The fields, the streams, the skies, are fair, vol. v., 267.


s: The gathering clans 'mong Scotia's glens, vol. iv., 52.


s: The gloamin' star was showerin', vol. vi., 106.


s: The gloom of dark despondency, vol. vi., 193.


s: The golden smile of morning, vol. vi., 122.


s: The gowan glitters on the sward, vol. i., 143.


s: The heath this night must be my bed, vol. i., 297.


s: The Highland hills, there are songs of mirth, vol. vi., 168.


s: The ingle cheek is bleezin' bricht, vol. v., 235.


s: Their nest was in the leafy bush, vol. i., 206.


s: The laird o' Cockpen, he 's proud and he 's great, vol. i., 198.


s: The lake is at rest, love, vol. iv., 85.


s: The land I lo'e, the land I lo'e, vol. iv., 215.


s: The lark has left the evening cloud, vol. iii., 10.


s: The last gleam o' sunset in ocean was sinkin', vol. iii., 221.


s: The lily of the vale is sweet, vol. v., 35.


s: The little comer 's coming, the comer o'er the sea, vol. v., 132.


s: The love-sick maid, the love-sick maid, vol. iv., 93.


s: The maidens are smiling in rocky Glencoe, vol. vi., 130.


s: The maid is at the altar kneeling, vol. iv., 160.


s: The maid who wove the rosy wreath, vol. iv., 96.


s: The midges dance aboon the burn, vol. ii., 149.


s: The mitherless lammie ne'er miss'd its ain mammie, vol. i., 231.


s: The moon hung o'er the gay greenwood, vol. iv., 140.


s: The mother with her blooming child, vol. v., 172.


s: The music o' the year is hush'd, vol. ii., 161.


s: The neighbours a' they wonder how, vol. ii., 293.


s: The night winds Eolian breezes, vol. iv., 265.


s: The oak is Britain's pride, vol. v., 223.


s: The parting kiss, the soft embrace, vol. iii., 90.


s: The primrose is bonnie in spring, vol. iii., 174.


s: There grew in bonnie Scotland, vol. ii., 186.


s: There grows a bonnie brier-bush in our kail-yard, vol. i., 215.


s: There is a bonnie blushing flower, vol. v., 256.


s: There is a concert in the trees, vol. iv., 208.


s: There is a pang for every heart, vol. iii., 148.


s: There is music in the storm, love, vol. vi., 180.


s: There lived a lass in Inverness, vol. iii., 14.


s: There lives a lassie i' the braes, vol. i., 24.


s: There lives a young lassie, vol. iv., 116.


s: There 's cauld kail in Aberdeen, vol. i., 48.


s: There 's cauld kail in Aberdeen, vol. i., 210.


s: There 's high and low, there 's rich and poor, vol. i., 194.


s: There 's meikle bliss in ae fond kiss, vol. vi., 128.


s: There 's mony a flower beside the rose, vol. iv., 188.


s: There 's music in a mother's voice, vol. vi., 51.


s: There 's nae covenant noo, lassie, vol. ii., 187.


s: There 's nae hame like the hame o' youth, vol. iv., 228.


s: There 's nae love like early love, vol. iii., 185.


s: There 's some can be happy and bide whar they are, vol. vi., 163.


s: There was a musician wha play'd a good stick, vol. i., 271.


s: The rosebud blushing to the morn, vol. ii., 105.


s: The Rover o' Lochryan, he 's gane, vol. v., 64.


s: The season comes when first we met, vol. i., 43.


s: The sea, the deep, deep sea, vol. iii., 218.


s: The shadows of evening fall silent around, vol. vi., 146.


s: The sky in beauty arch'd, vol. iv., 154.


s: The skylark sings his matin lay, vol. vi., 63.


s: The spring comes back to woo the earth, vol. v., 156.


s: The storm grew faint as daylight tinged, vol. iv., 212.


s: The summer comes wi' rosy wreaths, vol. vi., 36.


s: The sun blinks sweetly on yon shaw, vol. ii., 175.


s: The sun-down had mantled Ben Nevis with night vol. iv., 287.


s: The sun hadna peep'd frae behint the dark billow, vol. iii., 129.


s: The sun has gane down o'er the lofty Ben Lomond, vol. ii., 136.


s: The sun is setting on sweet Glengarry, vol. ii., 176.


s: The sun is sunk, the day is done, vol. i., 133.


s: The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day, vol. i., 41.


s: The sunny days are come, my love, vol. vi., 172.


s: The sweets o' the simmer invite us to wander, vol. ii., 305.


s: The tears I shed must ever fall, vol. i., 168.


s: The troops were all embarked on board, vol. i., 115.


s: The weary sun 's gane down the west, vol. ii., 154.


s: The widow is feckless, the widow 's alane, vol. v., 200.


s: The wild rose blooms in Drummond woods, vol. iv., 236.


s: The women are a' gane wud, vol. i., 227.


s: The year is wearing to an end, vol. ii., 79.


s: They 're stepping off, the friends I knew, vol. vi., 45.


s: They speak o' wiles in woman's smiles, vol. iii., 122.


s: They tell me first and early love, vol. vi., 73.


s: They tell me o' a land whar the sky is ever clear, vol. vi., 212.


s: Thou bonnie wood o' Craigie Lee, vol. ii., 153.


s: Thou cauld gloomy Feberwar, vol. iii., 164.


s: Thou dark stream slow wending thy deep rocky way, vol. v., 114.


s: Thou hast sworn by thy God, my Jeanie, vol. iii., 17.


s: Though all fair was that bosom heaving white, vol. iv., 67.


s: Though long the wanderer may depart, vol. vi., 225.


s: Though richer swains thy love pursue, vol. i., 134.


s: Though siller Tweed rin o'er the Lea, vol. ii., 104.


s: Though this wild brain is aching, vol. iv., 155.


s: Thou ken'st, Mary Hay, that I lo'e thee weel, vol. ii., 167.


s: Through Crockstoun Castle's lanely wa's, vol. ii., 144.


s: Thy cheek is o' the rose's hue, vol. ii., 244.


s: Thy queenly hand, Victoria, vol. v., 264.


s: Thy wily eyes, my darling, vol. iv., 292.


s: 'Tis haena ye heard, man, o' Barrochan Jean, vol. ii., 150.


s: 'Tis not the rose upon the cheek, vol. iii., 60.


s: 'Tis sair to dream o' them we like, vol. iii., 266.


s: 'Tis sweet wi' blithesome heart to stray, vol. v., 186.


s: 'Tis Yule! 'tis Yule! all eyes are bright, vol. vi., 65.


s: Together, dearest, we have play'd, vol. v., 22.


s: To live in cities, and to join, vol. v., 245.


s: Touch once more a sober measure, vol. iii., 178.


s: To Scotland's ancient realm, vol. v., 272.


s: To wander lang in foreign lands, vol. iii., 210.


s: True love is water'd aye wi' tears, vol. i., 233.


s: Trust not these seas again, vol. vi., 232.


s: 'Twas a balmy summer gloamin', vol. vi., 158.


s: 'Twas on a Monday morning, vol. ii., 61.


s: 'Twas on a simmer afternoon, vol. i., 213.


s: 'Twas summer, and softly the breezes were blowing, vol. i., 72.


s: Up with the dawn, ye sons of toil, vol. vi., 142.


s: Waken, lords and ladies gay, vol. i., 304.


s: Walkin' out ae mornin' early, vol. iii., 24.


s: Warlike chieftains now assembled, vol. v., 40.


s: Weep away, heart, weep away, vol. vi., 59.


s: Weep not over poet's wrong, vol. vi., 69.


s: Welcome, pretty little stranger, vol. i., 257.


s: We part, yet wherefore should I weep, vol. v., 105.


s: Were I a doughty cavalier, vol. v., 127.


s: Were I but able to rehearse, vol. i., 17.


s: We were baith neebor bairns, thegither we play'd, vol. vi., 185.


s: Wha 'll buy caller herrin', vol. i, 195.


s: Whan Jamie first woo'd me he was but a youth, vol. iii., 25.


s: What ails my heart--what dims my e'e? vol. v., 253.


s: What ails ye, my lassie, my dawtie, my ain? vol. vi., 78.


s: What are the flowers of Scotland, vol. ii., 66.


s: What makes this hour a day to me? vol. v., 33.


s: What though ye hae nor kith nor kin, vol. v., 238.


s: What 's this vain world to me, vol. i., 236.


s: What wakes the poet's lyre, vol. iv., 91.


s: When a' ither bairnies are hush'd to their hame, vol. iii., 123.


s: When autumn comes and heather bells, vol. iv., 132.


s: When Charlie to the Highlands came, vol. ii., 180.


s: When first I cam' to be a man, vol. i., 13.


s: When fops and fools together prate, vol. i., 31.


s: When friendship, love, and truth abound, vol. i., 253.


s: When hope lies dead within the heart, vol. i., 45.


s: When I began the world first, vol. i., 33.


s: When I look far down on the valley below me, vol. iv., 169.


s: When I think on the lads and the land I hae left, vol. v., 66.


s: When I think on the sweet smiles o' my lassie, vol. ii., 307.


s: When I was a miller in Fife, vol. iii., 92.


s: When Katie was scarce out nineteen, vol. i., 157.


s: When loud the horn is sounding, vol. vi., 63.


s: When merry hearts were gay, vol. i., 92.


s: When others are boasting 'bout fetes and parades, vol. v., 153.


s: When sets the sun o'er Lomond's height, vol. ii., 183.


s: When the bee has left the blossom, vol. v., 73.


s: When the fair one and the dear one, vol. ii., 190.


s: When the lark is in the air, vol. iii., 158.


s: When the sheep are in the fauld, vol. i., 64.


s: When the star of the morning is set, vol. iv., 66.


s: When thy smile was still clouded, vol. ii., 282.


s: When we meet again, Lisette, vol. vi., 190.


s: When white was my owrelay, vol. i., 134.


s: When winter winds forget to blaw, vol. i., 268.


s: Where Manor's stream rins blithe an' clear, vol. iii., 262.


s: Where shall the lover rest, vol. i., 292.


s: Where the faded flower shall freshen, vol. vi., 230.


s: Where windin' Tarf, by broomy knowes, vol. iii., 67.


s: While beaux and belles parade the street, vol. iv., 213.


s: While the dawn on the mountain was misty and gray, vol. i., 303.


s: Why does the day whose date is brief, vol. iii., 202.


s: Why gaze on that pale face, vol. vi., 161.


s: Wi' heart sincere I love thee, Bell, vol. iii., 54.


s: Will ye gang o'er the lea rig, vol. i., 202.


s: Will ye go to the Highlands, my Mary, vol. iii., 66.


s: Will you go to the woodlands with me, with me, vol. v., 180.


s: Winter's cauld and cheerless blast, vol. v., 196.


s: With a breezy burst of singing, vol. v., 285.


s: With drooping heart he turn'd away, vol. vi., 218.


s: Within the towers of ancient Glammis, vol. ii., 88.


s: With laughter swimming in thine eye, vol. iii., 88.


s: With lofty song we love to cheer, vol. v., 23.


s: Would that I were where wild woods wave, vol. iv., 68.


s: Ye briery bields, where roses blaw, vol. ii., 231.


s: Ye daisied glens and briery braes, vol. iii., 208.


s: Ye dark, rugged rocks that recline o'er the deep, vol. i., 179.


s: Ye hameless glens and waving woods, vol. vi., 151.


s: Ye ken whaur yon wee burnie, love, vol. v., 148.


s: Ye mauna be proud, although ye be great, vol. v., 205.


s: Ye needna be courtin' at me, auld man, vol. iv., 222.


s: Yestreen, as I strayed on the banks o' the Clyde, vol. iii., 187.


s: Yestreen, on Cample's bonnie flood, vol. v., 21.


s: Ye 've seen the blooming rosy brier, vol. iv., 249.


s: Yon old temple pile, where the moon dimly flashes, vol. v., 174.


s: Young Donald, dearer loved than life, vol. iv., 113.


s: Young Randal was a bonnie lad when he gaed awa, vol. v., 126.


s: You 've surely heard of famous Neil, vol, ii., 86.


s: Cunningham, Thomas Mounsey, vol. ii., 223.


s: Gordon, Alexander, Duke of, vol. i., 46.


s: Irving, Archibald Stirling, vol. iv., 235.


s: Wilson, Alexander Stephen, vol. vi., 192.


s: In the merry spring time, thus says my song,


s: When the sun shines bright and the days grow long,


s: And the crocuses brilliant, in purple and gold,


s: When in the fields the grass grows green,


s: With which they build their houses good:


s: "CAW! CAW!" they say, "for food we'll fly


s: Straightway their forest homes they seek.


s: Each young one grows in strength and size;


s: The young ones thought was but the breeze;


s: Where late the murderous sport had been:


s: And gathering up their slaughtered prey,


s: Straightway their course they homeward bent,


s: He caught the flies, poor little things,


s: He kill'd the birds, and broke the chairs,


s: And kick'd and whipp'd him more and more;


s: And laughs to see the nice things there:


s: That if she touch'd them, they should scold her.


s: They scream'd for help, 'twas all in vain!


s: So then, they said,--"we'll scream again;


s: Their tears ran down their cheeks so fast,


s: Ran out and laugh'd, and wav'd his flag;


s: See, there they are, and there they run!


s: And legs, and arms, and heads, and toes,


s: The hare stopp'd short, took aim, and hark!


s: Bang went the gun,--she miss'd her mark!


s: "O dear!" she cried, with spoon in hand,


s: And cuts their thumbs clean off,--and then,


s: The great, long, red-legg'd scissar-man.


s: And looks quite sad, and shows his hands;--


s: Through the trees and flow'rs and thistles!


s: Through the clouds the rude wind bore him,


s: does not necessarily contain the idea of a _premature_ death, yet


s: το δέοντος ἔπεμφεν, ὡς τῆς προθέσεως (_i.e._ προ) καιρικόν τι


s: δηλούσης, ἢ ἁπλὡς ἔπεμψεν, ώς πλεοναζούσης τἤς προθέσεως. Hesych.


s: gemitu fugit _indignata_ sub umbras," where Servius well


s: observes, "quia discedebat a juvene: nam volunt philosophi,


s: invitam animam discedere a corpore, cum quo adhuc habitare


s: legibus naturæ poterat." I have, however, followed Ernesti, with


s: there is a similar sense of the pronoun.]


s: "Let me not find thee, old man, at the hollow barks, either now


s: usage in negative sentences only; as, '_it is of no use to


s: thee_,' or, '_it helps thee not_,' and similar expressions."]


s: which still clings to the translations, is exploded by Buttm.


s: Lex. p. 144. Eust. and Heysch. both give εὺτρεπίζονσαν as one of


s: the interpretations; and that such is the right one is evident


s: from the collateral phrase πορσύνειν λέχος in Od. iii. 403.


s: Λμφιζέζηκας is the perfect tense, but with the force of the


s: for a _mouse_: either because Apollo had put an end to a plague


s: of mice among that people, or because a mouse was thought


s: emblematical of augury.--Grote, Hist. of Greece, vol. i. p. 68,


s: observes that this "worship of Sminthian Apollo, in various parts


s: earliest period of Æolic colonization." On the Homeric


s: description of Apollo, see Müller, Dorians, vol. i. p. 315.]


s: white-armed goddess Juno had suggested it; for she was anxious


s: denotes place, ἰν Τροίᾳ. Valcknaer justly supports the ordinary


s: But him swift-footed Achilles, answering, addressed: "Taking full


s: the eternity of things. Empedocles apud Pseud. Arist. de Mundo:


s: Πάνθ' ὅσα τ' ὴν, ὅσα τ' εστὶ, καὶ ὄσσα τε ἔσται ὀπίσσω. Virg.


s: Georg. iv. 392: "Novit namque omnia vates, Quæ sint, quæ fuerint,


s: evidently meant. In other instances I have retained the specific


s: names of the different confederate nations.]


s: unwilling to accept the splendid ransom of the virgin daughter of


s: people merely listen to their ordinances and decisions, in order


s: to regulate their own conduct accordingly; being suffered,


s: indeed, to follow the natural impulse of evincing, to a certain


s: extent, their approbation or disapprobation of their superiors,


s: but without any legal means of giving validity to their opinion."


s: But him swift-footed Achilles sternly regarding, addressed: "Ha!


s: fair-cheeked daughter of Brises, thy prize; that thou mayest well


s: probably soon lose his life by his haughtiness."


s: "Ollei respondet Rex Albaï longaï," and "Ollei respondet suavis


s: sonus Egeriäi," observing that this formula was probably as


s: common in the heroic annals of Ennius as τὸν δ' ὰπαμειξόμενος is


s: άτηρός.--Hesych. βλαξρός, άτηρός.]


s: Nestor, the harmonious orator of the Pylians, from whose tongue


s: Nestor's exploits and character in Crete's Hist, of Greece, vol.


s: But him noble Achilles interruptingly answered: "Yea, forsooth, I


s: Thus were they employed in these things through the army. Nor did


s: But Blomfield, Obs. on Matth. Gr. § 124, prefers to render it


s: "ships of due size," as [δαις ειση], ver. 468, "an equalized


s: putting away of the guilt, which, through Agamemnon's


s: transgression, was brought upon the army also.--Wolf.]


s: "Going to the tent of Achilles, the son of Peleus, lead away fair


s: άδεώς ίεναι.--Pollux, viii. They were properly sacred to Mercury


s: (id. iv. 9. Cf. Feith, Antiq. Homer, iv. 1), but are called the


s: messengers of Jove, as being under his special protection, with a


s: invaluable ransoms, having in his hand the fillets of far-darting


s: mountain Placus, in the district afterwards called Adramyttium.


s: The inhabitants were Cilicians.--See Heyne, and De Pinedo on


s: Arnold. The fable is ridiculed by Minucius Felix, § 22.]


s: necessarily implied in ἄτη. See Buttm. Lex. p. 5, sq.]


s: and Oceanus is an immense stream encircling it, from which the


s: Thus having spoken, he placed her in his hands; but he rejoicing


s: them, Chryses, uplifting his hands, prayed with loud voice:


s: barley,"--Voss; but Buttmann, Lexil. p. 454, in a highly amusing


s: note, observes, "no supposition of a regular and constant


s: distinction between the Greeks and Romans, the one using barley


s: whole and the other coarsely ground, possible as the thing may


s: be in itself, is to be entertained without the express testimony


s: But when they had ceased from their labour, and had prepared the


s: banquet, they feasted; nor did their soul in anywise lack a due


s: crowning the goblets with flowers was of later origin.]


s: Kennedy renders it "ushering in the dawn."]


s: reverence my son, and shall advance him in honour."


s: willingly to tell me one word of what thou dost meditate."


s: was "a double cup with a common bottom in the middle."--Crusius.]


s: driven to Cos by a storm raised by Juno, who was hostile to him,


s: and who had contrived to cast Jupiter into a sleep, that he might


s: artifice practised upon him, bound her feet to iron anvils, which


s: to Müller), and the ancient inhabitants of Lemnos. This island


s: was ever after sacred to Vulcan. Cf. Lactant. i. 15; Milton, P.L.


s: Thus, then, they feasted the entire day till the setting sun; nor


s: responding in turn, with delicious voice.


s: their own, which had its hierarchy, its distribution of ranks and


s: banquets or festivals."--Grote, vol. i. p. 463. Cf. Müller, Gk.


s: The rest, then, both gods and horse-arraying men, slept all the


s: everything as I shall command thee. Bid him arm the long-haired


s: Achæans with all their array; for now perhaps he may take the


s: wide-wayed city of the Trojans; for the immortals who possess the


s: Thus he spake: and the dream accordingly departed, as soon as it


s: horseback was not practised in the Homeric times."]


s: Jupiter does not utter a _direct_ falsehood.]


s: which Plato was much scandalized, Coleridge, p. 154, observes:


s: "The οὖλος ὄνειρος was a lying spirit, which the father of gods


s: and men had a supreme right to commission for the purpose of


s: forgetfulness possess thee, when sweet sleep shall desert thee."


s: clear-voiced heralds to summon the long-haired Achæans to an


s: assembly. They therefore summoned them, and the people were very


s: islands, and all Argos. Leaning upon this, he spoke words


s: its force, according to Stadelmann and Kühner, who are followed


s: by Anthon. I have restored the old interpretation, which is much


s: less far-fetched, and is placed beyond doubt by Virgil's


s: imitations.--"_per_ florea rura," Æn. i. 430; "floribus insidunt


s: variis." Æn. vi. 708. "Among fresh dews and flowers, Fly to and


s: bees first appear. See Virg. l. c. Eurip. Hipp. 77, μέλισσα


s: λειμῶν' ᾐρινὸν ὂιέρχεται.--Nicias, Anthol. i. 31, ἔαρ φαίνουσα


s: influence of the house of the Atrides, see Grote. vol. i. p.


s: understanding ὶερεῖα, the victims that were slain in order to


s: ratify the oath. See however Buttm. Lexil. p. 439.]


s: λέλυνται καταλληλότερον τοῦ δοῦρα σέσηπε.]


s: κινήση for κινήσει from the Venice MS. See Arnold.]


s: Of Ceres, ripe for harvest, waving bends


s: Her bearded grove of ears, which way the wind


s: (s.v.) prefer "swaying, rocking on both sides."]


s: H. O. 88, γίνεται δε παραλαμξανομένης δοτικῆς πτώσεως άντι


s: Whatsoever king, indeed, or distinguished man he chanced to find


s: standing beside him, he checked him with gentle words:


s: sceptre, and laws, that he may govern among them."


s: _to dry_, as if φωξός, _warped by heat_.]


s: "O strange! surely ten thousand good deeds has Ulysses already


s: "O son of Atreus, the Greeks wish to render thee now, O king, the


s: connection with μενών. Others most awkwardly make σὺν=παρά.]


s: the remains of the tree were shown in his time. The whole of this


s: Compare the following passage of Apuleius de Deo Socr. p. 52, ed.


s: et classem deduxit, et decennium prædixit."]


s: notice has been taken of this story by the later poets. But the


s: sacrifice of Iphigenia was a more attractive subject for tragedy


s: or episode, and took the place of the Homeric legend.]


s: (_Gerenium_, _a_, or _ia_. See Arnold, and Pinedo on Steph. Byz.


s: s.v. Γερηνία), where he was brought up, probably after Pylos had


s: φροντίδες. See Buttm. Lexil. p. 440, sqq. Helen certainly shows


s: "loud-voiced," or "good in the battle-shout." Βοῂ contains the


s: whole idea of the tumultuous noise heard in the heat of battle,


s: and thence the battle itself. Thus the Schol. ὁ ἐv τῷ πολἐμω


s: γενναἲος; and Hesych. κατὰ τῂν μάχην ανδρεἲος.]


s: κλητοί τ' αύτό μολοί τε. See Plato Sympos. p. 315, G. Læm. Why


s: Menelaus did so, is no matter to us, and probably was no mystery


s: Thus he spoke, nor did Agamemnon, king of men, refuse compliance.


s: destructive." Cf. Buttm. Lex. s. v. ἀΐδηλος.]


s: And these, as goat-herds easily separate the broad flocks of the


s: distinguished amongst many, and conspicuous amongst heroes.


s: unwearied, and a brazen heart were within me; unless the Olympic


s: "Et meministis enim, Divæ, et memorare potestis:


s: Ad nos vix tenuis famæ perlabitur aura."


s: "Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view,


s: hyperbolical mode of excusing poetic powers is ridiculed by


s: But Ajax led twelve ships from Salamis, and leading arranged them


s: "Athene is locally identified with the soil and people of Athens,


s: earth, but Athene brings him up, nourishes him, and lodges him in


s: sacrifice and solemnities. It was altogether impossible to make


s: Erechtheus son of Athene,--the type of the goddess forbade it;


s: but the Athenian myth-creators, though they found this barrier


s: impassable, strove to approach to it as near as they could."


s: Compare also p. 262, where he considers Erechtheus "as a divine


s: or heroic, certainly a superhuman person, and as identified with


s: the primitive germination of Attic man."]


s: Those who possessed Mycenæ, the well-built city, and wealthy


s: the Dorians, was called Ephyra (as in II. vi. 152). "Neque est,


s: quod miremur ab Homero nominari Corinthum, nam ex persona poetæ


s: et hanc urbem, et quasdam Ionum colonias iis nominibus appellat,


s: quibus vocabantur ætate ejus, multo post Ilium captum


s: early poetic contests, see Müller, Gk. Lit. iv. 2, whose


s: interesting remarks are, unfortunately, too long for a note.]


s: equivocal in it, which is cleared up, if we suppose it addressed


s: to the inhabitants of the Asiatic side of the Archipelago. But


s: if, with Pope, we understand the words 'beyond the sea' to relate


s: forced meaning; for the old Greek historians tell us, that those


s: islands are so close upon the coast of Elis, that in their time


s: many of them had been joined to it by means of the


s: referring to the Homeric legend respecting Meleager in II. xi.


s: indirectly, there seems little doubt that Homer must have


s: conceived the death of the hero as brought about by the maternal


s: curse: the unrelenting Erinnys executed to the letter the


s: invocations of Althæa, though she herself must have been willing


s: simplicity of these antiquated periphrases.]


s: collected the Homeric instances of exile "for private or


s: involuntary homicide," observing, however, from the Schol. on Il.


s: either received or required purification for the crime."]


s: poem of Arctinus, the Iliu-Persis, wherein the one was


s: represented as unrivalled in surgical operations, the other as


s: sagacious in detecting and appreciating morbid symptoms. It was


s: Podalirius who first noticed the glaring eyes and disturbed


s: deportment which preceded the suicide of Ajax."]


s: But Gyneus led two-and-twenty ships from Cyphus. Him the Enienes


s: terror of Mars, both mares, silver-bowed Apollo fed in Pieria. Of


s: But they went along, as if the whole earth was being fed upon by


s: fire, and the earth groaned beneath, as in honour of


s: marshalling the citizens, be leader of them."


s: again mentioned, and Müller, Greek Lit. i. § 4.]


s: But the Trojans who inhabited Zeleia, beneath the lowest foot of


s: there was a real connection between the name of Lycia and the


s: worship of Apollo, and that it was the worship of Apollo which


s: gave the name to this district of Troy, as it had done to the


s: ornaments in great profusion. See Porson on Eur. Hec. 153.]


s: But Sarpedon and gallant Glaucus from Lycia afar, from


s: "what even a god would not say."--Buttm. Lexil. p. 359.]


s: Breathing united force with fixed thought,


s: But Hector having seen him, upbraided him with opprobrious words:


s: to Paris and his friends (so δυσελένας, "baleful Helen," Eur. Or.


s: preserved, despite the omens attending his birth. See Hygin. Fab.


s: ὅτι τὸν μόνον παοῆλθεν.]


s: And meantime came Iris a messenger to white-armed Helen, likening


s: "Come hither, dear lady, that thou mayest view the wondrous deeds


s: worn doubled. Others suppose it means cloth of double tissue.]


s: destruction to us and to our children hereafter."


s: congenial company of my equals. But these things were not done:


s: i.e. _si recte dici potest fuisse, quod ita sui factum est


s: dissimile, ut fuisse unquam vix credas_."--Herm. on Vig. p. 946,


s: similar enumeration and description of the seven Argive


s: then mean that Agamemnon was a head less than others, and


s: consequently Ulysses would be two heads under the ordinary size.


s: Anthon has adopted this common mistake, although Wolf had pointed


s: pleasant Lacedæmon, or they indeed have followed hither in the


s: whilst besieging Sparta.--Hygin. Poet. Ast. ii. 22. According,


s: however, to other mythologists, they shared immortality in turns.


s: But when they had now come between the Trojans and the Greeks,


s: same as κωνος, a metal ridge in which the plume was fixed.]


s: "O father Jove, none other of the gods is more baleful than thou.


s: thong, [made] from the hide of an ox slaughtered by violence: and


s: Thus spoke the son of Atreus, and the other Greeks approved.


s: Now they, the gods, sitting on the golden floor with Jove, were


s: "Two goddesses, indeed, are auxiliaries to Menelaus, Argive Juno


s: friendship between both parties. And if, moreover, this shall


s: ταις δεξιαις. Cf. xi. 14. Hesych. δειδεκτο, εδεξιουτο, δια φιλιας


s: Pausan. ix. 33; Steph. Byz. ν. αλαλκομενιον.]


s: perhaps thou mightst satiate thy fury. Do as thou wilt, lest this


s: Dorians invaded and possessed, Homer makes as broad an allusion


s: to the conquests of the Heraclidæ, not only as would be


s: consistent with the pride of an Ionic Greek in attesting the


s: triumphs of the national Dorian foe, but as the nature of a theme


s: conduct, from the historical detail of subsequent events, would


s: warrant to the poet."--Bulwer, Athens, i. 8. The correctness of


s: this view, however, depends upon the true date of Homer's


s: Belisarius in Procop. Vandal. i. Μαχονται μεν ανθρωποι, βραζευει


s: δε ο Θεος οπως ποτε αυτω δοκει, και το του πολεμου δίδωσι


s: given by the Scholiast, Hesychius, and others. But Heraclides,


s: Alleg. § 6, says that Apollo is so called επειδη του κατα την


s: ορθριον ωραν λυκαυγους εστιν αιτιοι, η οτι λυκαζαντα γεννα,


s: τουτεστι τον ενιαυτον. Cf. Macrob. Sat. i. 17; Serv. on Æn. iv.


s: renowned archer, that he would sacrifice a splendid hecatomb of


s: Nor did the blessed immortal gods forget thee, O Menelaus; but


s: deftly-wrought belt was it driven, and it stuck in the variegated


s: that "it is principally owing to our sense of the dramatic


s: probability of the action of the divinities in the Iliad that the


s: the manifest favourite of the gods stands out in a dilated and


s: more awful shape before our imagination, and seems, by the


s: association, to be lifted up into the demigod."]


s: penetranti."--Heyne. But it is better to understand, "where the


s: plates of the cuirass meet and overlay the ζωμα."--Arnold.]


s: unaccomplished; but to me there will be grief on thy account, O


s: hour of retribution is so certain, that it may be considered


s: variegated belt, and the girdle beneath, and the plate which


s: brass-working men forged, warded it off."


s: Thus he spoke, and incited his soul within his breast. And they


s: Trajano ducem Agamemnonem secuti, non mediocrem opem


s: commilitonibus suis attulerunt. Quos tamen Homerus non in


s: pestilentia neque in variis generibus morborum aliquid attulisse


s: auxilii, sed vulneribus tantummodo ferro et medicamentis mederi


s: solitos esse proposuit. Ex quo apparet, has partes medicinæ solas


s: "Argives, ye arrow-fighters, subjects for disgrace, are ye not


s: with fighting close-handed, handed, was much despised (cf. Soph.


s: τοὺς ἰοὺς μεμορημένοι, Apoll. Lex. and Hesych.) need not be


s: forced into any of the out-of-the-way meanings which Anthon and


s: interpretation. The meaning is, whoever, without leaping from his


s: attack. This was less dangerous than dismounting.]


s: brass-mounted chariot. Near him stood Sthenelus, son of Capaneus.


s: see where there was a chance of escape by running between the


s: Him sternly regarding, brave Diomede accosted thus: "My friend


s: elder, like _papa_. Compare Alberti on Hesych. v. ἀπφία, t. i. p.


s: homicide Mars, she raises her head, small indeed at first, but


s: His stature reach'd the sky."--Paradise Lost, iv. 985.]


s: But him Ætolian Thoas struck, rushing on with his spear, in the


s: blows, nor pierced close at hand with the sharp brass, might be


s: ἀκούτατος. Sec Anthon; Ammonius, p. 29; Valck. Βεϑλῆσθαι μεν ἐστι


s: χειρὸς τετρῶσθαι.]


s: the beginning of the ὀπώρα, or season extending from the middle


s: of July to the middle of September. It is said to be most


s: brilliant at its time of rising. Cf. Apoll. iii. 956: Ὅς δή τοι


s: καλὸς μὲν ἀρίζηλός τ' ἐσιδέσθαί Ἀντέλλει.]


s: τὼ παῖδε φημὶ τώδε τὴν μὲν ἀρτίως ἄνουν πεϕάνθαι, τὴν δ' ἀϕ' οὗ


s: τὰ πρῶτ' ἔϕυ.]


s: μὲν Ἀπίων, όξεῖ ἔγχει, ὀξυόεντι δὲ, ὀξυΐνῳ. With Anthon, I prefer


s: oracle by which the Trojans were recommended to avoid maritime


s: affairs. Cf. Procl. Chrestom. p. 472, ed. Gaisf.]


s: When, therefore, Pandarus, the illustrious son of Lycaon, saw him


s: κληρονόμοι. Apoll. Lex. p. 854: Οὶ μακρόθεν προσήκοντες κατὰ


s: γένος, καὶ χῆρα ὄντα τῶν σύνεγγυς τὰ χρήματα κληρονομοῦντες.]


s: βουκόλος, ἕρπε ποτ' Ἰδὰν, Ἔρπε ποτ' Ἀγχίσαν. See Hymn, in Vener.


s: of the gods gave so much scandal to Plato, that he wished to cast


s: Ponticus, Alleg. Hom. p. 511. The fathers of the early church


s: made no small use of Plato's opinion on this head. Cf. Euseb. P.


s: Minucius Felix, 22; who all make use of his testimony as an


s: argument against Paganism. See Coleridge, Classic Poets, p. 64.]


s: time degraded; but the supreme god who commands the servitude is


s: in the like proportion exalted, whilst the idea of some sort of


s: order and government among these super-human beings was never


s: Thus she spoke: but the father of men and gods smiled, and having


s: bucklers. Then at length Phœbus Apollo addressed impetuous Mars:


s: temple of Apollo, Diana and Latona; and hence Homer represents


s: these three deities protecting the falling city."--Μüller,


s: "O friends, be men, and assume a valiant heart, and feel shame


s: Plato, Sympos. p. 317, F. G. ed. Læm., where he dwells upon the


s: advantages of friends fighting together, as rendering men ashamed


s: But them Hector discerned through the ranks, and rushed on them,


s: But him Diomede, brave in fight, seeing, trembled. As when a man,


s: "O friends, how do we all admire noble Hector, that he is both a


s: ὑπερόπτης, ϑρασύς. On the different and doubtful etymologies of


s: this word, see Alberti on Hesych. t. i. p, 44, and Buttm. Lexil.


s: But him Sarpedon, leader of the Lycians, in return accosted:


s: ("inferni raptoris equos," Claudian, de R. P. i. 1) employed in


s: approaching, and spoke [this] mournful address:


s: could easily move, and which, from its suppleness and


s: flexibility, yielded to the pressure of his person."--Anthon.]


s: double circular rim); from this projected a silver pole; at its


s: Pursuit; on it was the Gorgonian head of the dreadful monster,


s: "O father Jove, art thou not indignant at Mars for these bold


s: deeds,--how numerous and how choice a multitude of Greeks he has


s: personified, in Hesiod, Scut. Herc. 134, and Virg. Æn. viii. 701:


s: Et scissâ gaudens vadit Discordia pallâ;


s: Quam cum sanguineo sequitur Bellona flagello."]


s: But her answering, cloud-compelling Jove addressed:


s: between two singular substantives, according to the Schema


s: Alemanicum. Compare Od. K, 513, and Il. Y, 138, which have been


s: Thus saying, she aroused the strength and courage of each. The


s: Thus he spoke, and ordered Pæon to heal him: and Pæon healed him,


s: "O _lux_ Dardaniæ, _spes_ ô fidissima Teucrûm." Quintus Calab.


s: iii. 561. Έπεὶ σύ μοι ὶερoν ᾗμαρ, καὶ ϕάος ὴελίοιο πέλες.]


s: totally, without burial-rites, and obscure."


s: distinction into the temple of azure-eyed Minerva, on the lofty


s: "Courageous Trojans and far-summoned allies, be men, my friends,


s: Fulgentius, iii. præf., agrees with Homer, giving a ridiculously


s: philosophical explanation of the whole story.]


s: tabellas, et mittit eum ad Iobaten regem," there is no reason to


s: believe that letters, properly so called, were yet invented. See


s: Knight, Prolegg. p. lxxiv. lxxxii.; Wood, on the original genius


s: of Homer, p. 249, sqq.; Müller, Lit. of Greece, iv. 5 (Bulwer,


s: Athens, i. 8, boldly advocates the contrary opinion); and


s: Anthon's note. Compare the similar story of Phædra and


s: well illustrated by Duport, p. 31. Burton, Anatomy, p. 259,


s: observes, "They delight in floods and waters, desert places, to


s: walk alone in orchards, gardens, private walks, back lanes,


s: averse from company, as Diogenes in his tub, or Timon


s: Misanthropus; they abhor all companions at last, even their


s: nearest acquaintances and most familiar friends; confining


s: themselves therefore to their private houses or chambers, they


s: will diet themselves, feed and live alone." Hence melancholy was


s: called the "morbus Bellerophonteus." See Bourdelot on Heliodor.


s: ἀπάνευθεν ἀλώμενος ίνδιάασκε.]


s: variously-embroidered robes, the works of Sidonian females, which


s: But Hector had gone to the beautiful halls of Alexander, which he


s: husband's sisters, or [to those] of any of her well-robed


s: well-inhabited city of the Cilicians, lofty-gated Thebes. He slew


s: Idomeneus, and the sons of Atreus, and the brave son of Tydeus.


s: But her then in turn the mighty crest-tossing Hector addressed:


s: "Et tunc sicut equus, qui de præsepibus actus,


s: Vincla sueis magneis animeis abrumpit, et inde


s: Fert sese campi per cærula, lætaque prata,


s: Celso pectore, sæpe jubam quassat simul altam;


s: Spiritus ex anima calida spumas agit albas."]


s: the σχήμα καθ' όλον και μέρος. See Jelf, Gk. Gr. §478, and my


s: στεφάνη as a distinct kind of helmet, or cap. So, also, the


s: Schol. and Hesych. t. ii. p. 186, and p. 1266. Others understand


s: the rim of the helmet. Paschal, de Coronis, i. 2: "Eam galeæ


s: partem quam Hesychius dicit habere εξοχάς, id quod in galea


s: eminentissimum est. Et vero apud Plutarchum distinguitur το


s: κράνος galea από της στεφάνης, ab ejus parte quæ est in ipsius


s: "Ιλιον, ἣν ἐπόλισσε  Ποσειδάων καἰ Απόλλων,


s: Ιλιον, ἣν ἀλάπαζαν Ἀθηναίη τε καἰ Ἣρη".


s: See Grote's Hist, of Greece, vol. i. p. 68.]


s: Thus having spoken, he put on his beautiful arms. Then, indeed, O


s: escape from the hostile battle and the grievous fight."


s: γε--άντιολήσαι, which Valckenaer, and with reason, thinks a more


s: Him then in turn the mighty crest-tossing Hector addressed: "Thou


s: stealthily, but openly, if haply I may strike thee."


s: Præcipitat, suadentque cadentia sidera somnos."]


s: ὃν συνάγονται. Hesychius, p. 79, makes it equivalent to ἄθροισμα,


s: Quæst. Hom. p. cvii. ed. Barnes, τὸν ναόν ἤτοι ϑεῖον τόπον ὄντα,


s: ἢ ϑεῖον ἄθροισμα περιέχοντα. So, also, the Scholiast.]


s: well-fitted gate, that through it there may be a passage for the


s: Thus having spoken, he sat down; but to them arose Priam, son of


s: clear-voiced herald, standing in the midst of them, spoke thus:


s: Then, indeed, the sun freshly struck the fields [with its rays],


s: Him, greatly enraged, the cloud-compelling Jove addressed:


s: "subsequent animosity of Neptune against Troy was greatly


s: determined by the sentiment of the injustice of Laomedon." On the


s: bought wine, some for brass, some for shining iron, others for


s: ἐστι τὸ ἐν τῷ πλήθει θρυλλούμενον τῇ τῶν πραγμάτων ἐναλλαγῇ


s: πρᾶσιν καὶ ἀγορασίαν συνίστασθαι, καὶ τοῦτο τὸ εῖδος πράσεως


s: ἀρχαιότατον εἶναι. He then alleges these lines of Homer as the


s: remarks: "Although the supremacy of Jove comes far short of the


s: true conception of almighty power, the characteristic point which


s: ruling power of the popular mythology, the supreme and despotic


s: chief of an aristocracy of weaker divinities, accustomed to


s: consult with them and liable to their opposition and even


s: violence, yet, upon the whole, substantially aristocratic, and


s: independent of any recognized permanent superior."--Classic


s: Thus having said, under his chariot he yoked his brazen-footed,


s: destinies of long-reposing death, [the destinies] both of the


s: But he himself mightily thundered from Ida, and sent his burning


s: But her king Neptune, greatly excited, thus addressed: "Juno,


s: Thus indeed were they holding such converse with each other. But


s: whatever space before the ships the trench belonging to the tower


s: that όσον εκ νηών από πύργου τάφρος εεργε, means that "the space


s: between the rampart and the sea was enclosed." Από does not


s: govern πυργου, but is compounded with εεργε.]


s: been long since anticipated by Paschal. de Coron. i. 4.]


s: φθορᾴ πορενόμενος.]


s: Thus he said: and the Sire pitied him weeping, and granted to him


s: illustrious son of Evæmon. Teucer came the ninth, stretching his


s: is said to have foretold Jove's own sovereignty, and hence to


s: have been placed among the constellations. Cf. Hygin. Poet. Astr.


s: Thus he said: but Iris, swift as the storm, hastened to bear the


s: restrained them, and pronounced to them the message of Jove:


s: and much-desired light came on, grateful to the Greeks.


s: vi. 4: "Interea fax Occidit, Oceanumque rubra tractim obruit


s: æthra." See Columna on Εnn. p. 113, ed. Hessel.]


s: to attend to. So _telum_ and _vulnus_ are used for each other


s: conspicuous around the lucid moon, when the æther is wont to be


s: Thus the Trojans indeed kept guard: but a mighty Flight, the


s: not to be explained as a supernatural flight, occasioned by the


s: gods. It is a great and general flight, caused by Hector and the


s: Trojans. For although this was approved of and encouraged by


s: Jupiter, yet his was only that mediate influence of the deity


s: without which in general nothing took place in the Homeric


s: Ionia. Heyne, however, observes, "comparatio e mente poetæ


s: instituitur, non ex Agamemnonis persona."]


s: doubtless, will it be agreeable to almighty Jove, who has already


s: fatherland. But we twain, I and Sthenelus, will fight, until we


s: untouched by fire, and ten talents of gold, and twenty shining


s: the land. Cf. Albert. on Hesych. t. ii. p. 806. So νησοιο μαστός


s: εύφημήσαι. Kennedy rightly explains it, "abstain from expressions


s: the god, might defeat the object of their supplications." See


s: Thus he spoke, and delivered an opinion agreeable to them all.


s: Patroclus alone sat opposite to him in silence, waiting upon the


s: Παλαιγενεων κλεα φώτων Μνησομαι.]


s: "Place a larger goblet, O son of Menœtius, mix purer wine, and


s: picture of ancient manners, compared with the customs of the


s: Hebrew fathers, compare Coleridge, p. 151.]


s: Thus he spoke; and Patroclus obeyed his dear companion. But he


s: probably be joined), θνηλάς' άπαρχάς των τεθυμἑνων.]


s: nurtured as his darling son, in great affluence. But he has three


s: from Il. O, 717. The άκροστόλια, or _figure-heads_, are not meant


s: coming hither, to my loss. And I will carry hence other gold and


s: παραγενόμενος. Cf. Alberti on Hesych. t. i. p. 1445.]


s: who is advancing imperceptibly, though surely, to final


s: the phrases "pilo minus amare", "pili facere." There is, however,


s: commerce, probably long before Memphis grew into importance, or


s: before the Delta was made suitable to the purposes of husbandry


s: by the cutting of canals and the raising of


s: this as an unmeaning expression, Heyne well observes: "numerus


s: centenarius ponitur pro magno: et portis semel memoratis,


s: multitudo hominum declaratur per numerum exeuntium."]


s: stamping-footed, crooked-horned oxen they slaughtered; many swine


s: Beside her he [Meleager] remained inactive, brooding over his sad


s: immediately was there noise and tumult of these excited round the


s: considers that τηλύγετος simply means "_tenderly beloved_; only


s: that it is a more forcible expression for this idea, as is


s: evident from the bad sense in which the word is used at II. v.


s: a comparison with Æsch. Choeph. 750, sqq., and Shakspeare's nurse


s: speaker is the best apology for the poet.]


s: his sublime idea of the Recording Angel blotting out the oath


s: which the Accusing Spirit had carried up to heaven.]


s: ἐλευθῆρος μεδέουσα. Like οὖθαρ ἀρούρης, in ver. 141, it is an


s: expression denoting excessive fertility.]


s: ἐπιλαθομένου τῆς ϑεοῦ. See an excellent sketch of the story in


s: Grote, vol. i. p. 195, sqq. Cf. Hygin. Fab. clxxii.; Lactant.


s: the heroes who accompanied Meleager is given by Hyginus, Fab.


s: his mother burning a fatal brand, Apollodor. i. c.; Zenobius


s: "Antiquissimis temporibus, quorum repetere memoriam possumus,


s: δαίμων nihil aliud erat, quam deus. Horn. Od. γ, 165, 160; Il. γ,


s: prosunt hominibus, aut iis nocent; utroque enim modo δαίμονες


s: Thus he spake, but all the kings approved, admiring the speech of


s: information, they then attack the Thracians, and slay their king,


s: προῤῥίζους. See Merrick on Tryphiodor. 388; Alberti on Hesych. t.


s: of keeping watch. Heyne compares Σ, 504: ἱερὸς κύκλος; Ω, 681:


s: λαθὼν ἱεροὺς πυλαωρούς. Compare, also, the ἱερὸς λόχος of the


s: Thebans, Plutarch, in Pelop. t. i. p. 285; E. Athen. xiii. p.


s: that "we must include ἀθροτάζειν among the forms of άμαρτάνω,


s: whose etymological connections, as long as we are ignorant of


s: occur in ver. 144. Διογενὲς Λαερτιάδη. 86: Νέστορ Νηληϊάδη.]


s: παραστατεῖ.]


s: dolore; οὐδέ μοι ἦτορ ἔμπεδον, ἀλλ' ἀλαλύκτημαι. Non sum, inquam,


s: Hor. Od. III. 4, 11: "Ludo fatigatumque somno." Compare the


s: learned dissertation on this subject by D'Orville on Chariton,


s: Ἀχαΐδα Νυκτηγορεῖσθαι κἀπιθουλεύειν πόλει.]


s: Αἴαντος, ἔνθα τάξιν ἐσχάτην ἔχει.]


s: ἔχειν ἐκτεταμένην. The epithet φοινικόεσσα denotes that it was


s: Hesychius, who also, with reference to the present passage, has


s: Σαυρωτῆρος' τοῦ σιδηρίου. Pollux, x. 31, well explains it, τὸ τοῦ


s: Thus he spoke: but he leaped up very quickly from slumber, and


s: ἡμῖν τα πράγματα. Soph. Antig. 996: Φρόνει βεζὼς αὖ νῦν ἐπὶ ξυροῦ


s: "O friends, would not now some man put such confidence in his own


s: head-piece was sewed. It Autolycus once brought from Eleon, the


s: "Wool was inlaid between the straps, in order to protect the


s: head, and make the helmet fit closer."--Kennedy.]


s: δυσμενεῖ Βάσιν ευκλοῦντ'.]


s: "Hector, my heart and gallant spirit urge me to approach the


s: swift-sailing ships, and gain information. But come, raise up thy


s: Thus he spoke, and indeed swore a vain oath; nevertheless he


s: meditated any deceit. The poet contemplates the event, which


s: frustrated his hopes, and rendered his oath nugatory."--Kennedy.]


s: learn accurately whether the swift ships be guarded as before, or


s: established meaning of the Homeric epithet, it will certainly be


s: always intelligible to the hearer and full of expression.


s: 'Night,' says a German proverb, 'is no man's friend;' the dangers


s: irritable, hostile goddess. Even the other deities are afraid of


s: her, who is (Il. Θ, 259) θεῶν δμήτειρα καὶ ἀνδρῶν; and Jupiter


s: himself, in the midst of his rage, refrains from doing what might


s: night is not personified: for as ὀξεῖς καιροί are _dangerous_


s: times, so by this word θοή it may be intended to mark the


s: swiftness and imminency of dangers which threaten men who go διὰ


s: νύκτα μέλαιναν."]


s: ἰισὶ Τρώων, οἵδε οἶσιν ἀνάγκη ἐστὶν, ἐγρηγόρθασι, κ. τ. λ.]


s: But him much-planning Ulysses answering addressed: "In


s: what manner now do they sleep: mingled with the horse-breaking


s: Trojans, or apart? Tell me, that I may know."


s: arundines, et addidit similiter confractis myricæ frondibus."]


s: Thus saying, he drove the solid-hoofed steeds across the ditch,


s: strength in the heart of each, to war and fight incessantly. And


s: with the cavalry at the trench; the cavalry followed at a little


s: Cf. Æsch. Pers. Μολπηδὸν ηὐϕήμησεν, ὄρθιον δ' ἄμα Άντηλάλαξε.]


s: But Jove withdrew Hector out of the reach of weapons, of dust, of


s: Thus he spake; nor did rapid Iris, swift as the wind on her feet,


s: wind-nurtured spear. He on his part was eagerly dragging by the


s: remind us of the "gone coon" of American celebrity, immortalized


s: in the "at homes" of the late Charles Matthews.]


s: epithet by the received opinion that trees in exposed situations


s: are usually the strongest and most vigorous from their frequent


s: Thus he spoke; and the charioteer lashed on the fair-maned steeds


s: Thus saying, he aroused the courage and spirit of each. As when


s: disgrace if indeed crest-tossing Hector take the ships."


s: compares "albus notus," in Horace. But see Kennedy.]


s: But him valiant Diomede, undismayed, addressed:


s: raptoris equos," Claud. de Rapt. Pros. i. 1) by which he stole


s: chirurgia sine diætetica, neque hæc sine chirurgia, id est, sine


s: ea parte quæ medicamentorum utilium usum habeat, perfici possunt;


s: Rhodius well observes: "Antiquos chirurgos Homerus Chironis


s: exemplo herbarum succis vulnera sanasse memorat. Hunc et


s: sectiones adhibuisse notat Pindarus Pyth. Od. iii. Neque


s: ingeniorum fons Ιλ. Λ. τὸ ἐκτάμνειν omisit." Cf. Celsus, Pref.


s: with the notes of Almeloveen, and lib. vii. præf., where the


s: chirurgical part of ancient medicine is amusingly discussed.]


s: But Cebriones, sitting beside Hector, perceived the Trojans in


s: But lofty-throned Jove excited fear within Ajax, and he stood


s: confounded, and cast behind him his shield of seven bulls' hides.


s: But him swift-footed Achilles answering, addressed: "Noble son of


s: themselves from the sweat upon their tunics, standing towards the


s: refreshed--cooled--themselves, by standing in front of the breeze


s: drinking, as anchovies and olives are now used.]


s: Lexil. p. 93. There were two doves round each handle, making


s: fighting. But you, [who are] fresh, will, with fighting, easily


s: this line: 1. Schneider explains it: "They have but short time to


s: breathing-time, from war, although short, will be agreeable." 4.


s: "Supply '_may be_', and translate, 'and that there _may be_ a


s: short breathing-time from the battle;' although this last


s: involves some tautology with the preceding line."--Ed. Dubl.]


s: The manner in which this was done is described by Celsus, v. 26:


s: "Si profusionem timemus, siccis lineamentis vulnus implendum est,


s: period. As long as Hector was alive, and Achilles indignant, and


s: τῶν ἄλλων εἴρηται ποιητῶν περὶ θεῶν' καὶ ὅτι τὰ μὲν κατὰ τὴν


s: αὐτῶν βούλησιν πραττόμενα ἐπὶ τὸ λώϊον ἐκθαίνει, τὰ δὲ παρὰ θεὸν


s: ἀλυσιτελῆ ὑπάρχει τοῖς πράξασι, where Duport, p. 72, thinks there


s: from physical facts, to justify the mythical description of


s: Homer,--see Heyne and Kennedy. Compare Virg. Æn. ii. 610, sqq.;


s: passages, Hesychius, t. i. p. 1006, and the Schol. on Oppian.


s: Hal. v. 282, suppose that the lightning is meant; but it is far


s: better to understand, with Heyne, "terrore divinitus immisso."]


s: "----ut patulas saltu transmittere fossas


s: Horror equis; hærent trepidi, atque immane paventes


s: Thus spake Polydamas; but the safe counsel pleased Hector; and


s: "Father Jove, surely now at least thou also hast become utterly


s: facto."--Heyne. Kennedy well observes that "we may trace here the


s: must have opened inwards, being secured from within by a double


s: bolt (cf. ver. 455, sqq.). See D'Orville on Chariton, i. xii. p.


s: Buttmann, Lexil. p. 64, dwells much upon the force of μέσον,


s: observing, "in no insect is _flexibility_ more evident than in


s: the wasp, where the lower part of its body is joined as it were


s: Thus he spake, nor did he persuade the mind of Jove, saying these


s: "Through the long walls the stony showers were heard,


s: The blaze of flames, the flash of arms appeared."--Pope.]


s: Polydamas was right in his interpretation.]


s: Od. Ξ. 291; and the most elaborate and accurate note on this


s: construction of D'Orville on Charit. iv. 4, p. 440, sqq. ed.


s: Lips., with Burm. and Schwabe on Phædr. iv. 17, 31; Duker on


s: "Glaucus, why are we especially honoured in Lycia, both with the


s: These royalties, and not refuse to reign,


s: To him who reigns, and so much to him due


s: bolted."--Butt. 3. Change the nominative case to the accusative,


s: and translate--"They (the Lycians) had attacked all the


s: participate in his toil, though for a short time. Both indeed in


s: "O Lycians, why are ye thus remiss in your impetuous force? It is


s: Μέτρα seem to be the lines used in measuring ground ("linea


s: mensuralis," Siculus Flaccus, p. 23, ed. Goes.)·]


s: passage of Homer, observes, οἰκοῦσι δὲ ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ οὗτοι


s: αὐτόνομοι, οὐχ ἥκιστα διὰ πενίαν τε καὶ δικαιότητα. Dionysius,


s: Perieg. 309, seems, as Hill observes, to consider the name


s: ἱππημολγοί as applicable not to one single clan, but to the whole


s: ancient Germans (id. vi. 22). Callimachus, Hymn iii., applies the


s: is involved in doubt, and the ancients themselves were uncertain


s: whether to regard it as a proper name or an epithet. (Cf. Steph.


s: Duport, Gnom. Horn. p. 74, sqq.) It seems best to understand with


s: wished to throw out these verses altogether, alleging that


s: allusion is made in them to the discipline of Zamolxis, with


s: which Homer must have been wholly unacquainted.]


s: Nor did king Neptune keep a vain watch; for he sat aloft upon the


s: Marcell. v. Cetarii--"cete in mari majora sunt piscium genera."


s: Thus Quintus Calaber, v. 94, imitating this passage, has


s: δελφινες, and Hesychius defines κητών by θύννων φορά, the word


s: evidently meaning any huge fish. Cf. Buttm. Lexil. p. 378, sq.]


s: Apoll. Rhod. iv. 771, sqq., and of the river Peneus, in Virg.


s: Hesych.: Χάρμη, η ρετά χαράς μάχη.]


s: use of άκεσταί, cf. Soph. Ant. 1026. Ὅστις ἐς κακὸν Πεσὼν ἀκεῖται


s: quote parallel passages would be endless.]


s: οίχεται--προθελυμνα, Tryphiodor. 388. Cf. Alberti on Hesych. t.


s: 'Αντί του εv τη των τρωταγωνιστων oμιλίᾳ (which is its proper


s: meaning, as derived from oaρ) και συναναστρoφη.]


s: shoulders; and in his mind he longed to strike Idomeneus, but he


s: descended for the purpose of rescuing the body of


s: βλίττω. See Buttm. Lexil. p. 194. Hesych.: Βλωθρή' εύαυζής, ή


s: προζαίνουσα καΐ άνω θρώσκουσα. Schol. on Apoll. Rhod. i. 322:


s: Πίτυν βλωθρήν Όμηρος, την άχρι του αιθέρος μολίσκουσαν.]


s: Lucret. vi, 113; "aridus fragor," Virg. Georg. I. 357, noticed by


s: According to the Schol. and Hesychius, it means a helmet that has


s: ὀφθαλμῶν ὀπάς), or a helmet with a long crest (έκτεταμένον


s: were among the rustic weapons of antiquity, as may be seen from


s: Stipitibus duris agitur, sudibusve præustis;


s: genitive, Heyne would supply μή τις έπαύρη αύτού κατά χρόα.]


s: Menestheus, son of Peteus, had the command; and with him followed


s: he would have been compelled to pay a fine for refusing the


s: service. Compare the ἀτιμία της ἀστραείας at Athens. See


s: "Hector, thou art impossible to be persuaded by advice. Because


s: ένθάδ' ὡς πορθούμεθα. Soph. Ant. 206: Ἠθέλησε μὲν πυρὶ πρῆσαι


s: κατ' ἄκρας. Eurip. Phœn. 1192: Κατ' ἄκρων περγάμων ἑλεῖν πόλιν.]


s: Whilst he was thus speaking, a bird flew over him on the right--a


s: encouraged by the omen; but illustrious Hector replied:


s: "Surdaque vota condidit Ionio," Pers. Sat. vi. 28.]


s: "O Neleïan Nestor, great glory of the Greeks, why, leaving the


s: therefore = "making mortals go astray," or else = άμβροσιη in ii.


s: intempesta," _i.e._ "muita nox, qua nihil agi tempestivum est,"


s: daughters of Adrastus, and he inhabited a mansion opulent in


s: Cf. Æsch. Prom. s.i., ἀσμένῳ δέ σοι Ἡ ποικιλείμων νῦζ ἀποκρύψει


s: Stephen's notes on Saxo-Grammaticus, pp. 90-92.]


s: μετόρχμιον ἐκάλεσεν ἐν τοῖς γεωργοῖς' καὶ Ἡσίοδος ὄρχον λέγει τὴν


s: Thus he spoke; and to him they all listened readily, and obeyed.


s: perchance he might desire to lie beside her form in dalliance, so


s: entering in, she closed the shining doors. First she washed all


s: impurities from her lovely person with rich oil, ambrosial, and


s: brazen-floored mansion of Jove, reached even to earth and to


s: needlework, and had embroidered much varied work upon it, and she


s: stronger and higher meaning of ἐός, or ἒός, _good_, which may be


s: compared with οὐτιδανός, μηκεδανός."]


s: _rubbed over_ and its use here is best explained by supposing a


s: reference to some process among the ancients whereby a shining


s: appearance was given to their vestments, as by _calendering_ or


s: meditate; for my mind urges me to accomplish it, if indeed I can


s: accomplish it, and if it be practicable."


s: referring to the perpetual strife of the elements. Thus Plato,


s: in Theætet. says: Ὅμηρος εἰπὼν, Ὠκεανόν τε θεῶν γένεσιν, καὶ


s: μητέρα Τηθὺν, πάντα εἴρηκεν ἔκγονα ροῆς τε καὶ κινήσεως. See


s: Ecl. i. 11. Grote, vol. i. p. 16, note, observes that, "Oceanus


s: and Tethys seem to be presented in the Iliad as the primitive


s: father and mother of the gods," although he says that "Uranos and


s: venerable gods, but neither the one nor the other present the


s: character of predecessors of Kronos and Zeus."]


s: She said, and loosed from her bosom the embroidered, variegated


s: cestus; where all allurements were enclosed. In it were love, and


s: "Take this, now place in thy bosom this variegated belt, in which


s: girdle, since it was to be hidden in the bosom (ver. 219), and


s: since its power appears to have been secret. See Heyne's note.]


s: like ζῆν, according to Doric analogy.... In all cases it stands


s: either quite absolute, that is, with the object understood, or


s: the accusative belongs to a verb immediately following."--Buttm.


s: "O Sleep, king of all gods and all men, if ever indeed thou


s: didst listen to my entreaty, now too be persuaded; and I will


s: παρακατατίθεσθαι τῶ ἀδελφῳ.--Ælian, Var. Hist. ii. 35.]


s: θνητῶν τ' άνθρώπων.]


s: dost thou urge me to perform this another dangerous deed."


s: prima sororum," according to Statius, Theb. ii. 286. Cf. Virg.


s: περὶ θυμὸς ἴάφθη. iii. 42: Ὡς ἴδον, ὡς ἐμάνη. Ovid, Epist. xii.


s: daughter of Agenor. See Grote, vol. i. p. 350.]


s: But her cloud-collecting Jove, answering, addressed:


s: the student should compare Grote, vol. i. p. 466.]


s: "Forthwith on all sides to his aid was run


s: By angels many and strong, who interposed


s: Defence, while others bore him on their shields


s: Back to his chariot, where it stood retired


s: From off the files of war; there they him laid,


s: Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame."]


s: overshadowed his eyes; for the blow still subdued his spirits.


s: "Ye Argive archers, insatiable in threats, assuredly not to us


s: illustrious Earth-shaker turned the [tide of] battle.


s: many-benched ships of Achilles, the son of Peleus. Then shall he


s: "Why, O Juno, hast thou come [hither], and art like unto one in


s: premit altum corde dolorem" with Seneca ad Pol. 24. Nemesian.


s: Eclog. iv. 17. "Quid vultu mentem premis, ac spem fronte


s: serenas." Liv. xxviii. 8: "Mœrebat quidem et angebatur.... in


s: concilio tamen dissimulans ægritudinem, elato nimo disseruit."]


s: But him the fleet wind-footed Iris then answered: "O azure-haired


s: Æn. i. 143; Fulgent Myth. i. 1, 3. The Scholiasts attempt to


s: refer it to the ancient theory of the elements.]


s: Sostrates in mitigating the intemperate language which Antigonus


s: would fain have addressed to Ptolemy Philadelphus. See Sextus


s: sense; either for evil, as upon Orestes after he had slain his


s: mother; or else for good, as upon elders when they are injured,


s: to protect them and avenge their wrongs. This is an instance that


s: "Go now, dear Phœbus, to brazen-helmed Hector; for already hath


s: mighty, dreadful, fringed, dazzling ægis, which the artist Vulcan


s: Hom. Poes. § 8. This irregularity is very common in the Greek


s: So saying, with the lash upon the shoulder he drove on his horses


s: "O Eurypylus, I cannot any longer remain here with thee, although


s: Thus he spoke; but he understood; and running, he stood near him,


s: ἀπολιβάζειν in Od. xii. 351, is interpreted by Apollonius


s: "O my friends, be men, and set honour in your hearts, and have


s: accomplishments, as well in the race as in the combat, and who in


s: Kennedy, with reason, prefers the former one.]


s: arranged in a two-fold line, from the outermost whereof the


s: Greeks were driven in upon their tents, disposed in the


s: intermediate position between the lines of the


s: "desultor amoris," in Ovid, Amor. i. 3, 15, to denote an


s: inconstant lover; "desultoria scientia," Apuleius, Met. i. præf.,


s: He said, and furious, charged with his sharp spear whoever of the


s: sketch of this hero's deification after death in Philostratus's


s: preface to the Heroica. He was the first of the Greeks who fell,


s: being slain by Hector as he leaped from the vessel (Hygin. Fab.


s: ciii.; Auson. Epigr. xx.). He was buried on the Chersonese, near


s: Scholiast's πάντων πόνων ἰσόῤῥοπον, or πάντων τῶν τολμηθέντων.


s: which Mollus, referring to Homer, thus explains: "Lacrymæ, quæ ex


s: worn out with battle from our ships and tents towards the city."


s: by a storm. With the following passage compare Theocrit. iii. 15,


s: portion, and to take back his reward because he excels in power."


s: Undique conveniunt, vel imber, tela Tribuno.


s: Configunt parmam, tinnit hastilibus umbo,


s: Æratæ sonitant galeæ: sed nec pote quisquam


s: Undique nitendo corpus discerpere ferro.


s: Semper abundanteis hastas frangitque, quatitque,


s: Totum sudor habet corpus, multumque laborat:


s: Achilles, smiting his thighs, addressed Patroclus:


s: Argus loved, beholding her with his eyes among the dancers at a


s: it ἐν ναυστάθμῳ.]


s: "As when from mountain tops the dusky clouds


s: Ascending, while the north wind sleeps, o'er-spread


s: Heav'n's cheerful face, the louring element


s: Scowls o'er the darkened landskip snow, or shower;


s: If chance the radiant sun with farewell sweet


s: Extend his evening beam, the fields revive,


s: The birds their notes renew and bleating herds


s: Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings."]


s: "Vix ea fatus erat, cum circumfusa repente


s: Scindit se nubes, et in æthera purgat apertum."


s: Cf. Drakenb. on Silius, iii. 196; Kuinoel on Matth. iii. 16; Acts


s: Θανάτου μέλαν νέφος.]


s: (_i.e._ Homer) ἐπὶ τοῦ ματαίου ἐνδέχεται τὸ Μέλεος οἱ δὲ


s: τραγικοὶ, ἐπὶ τοῦ οἰκτροῦ· So Hesych. μέλεος' μάταιος.]


s: "expressing the _violent streaming_ of a liquid." See Buttm.


s: And as when from Olympus comes a cloud into heaven, after a clear


s: "Jupiter ipse levi vectus per inania curru


s: Adfuit, et cœlo vicinum liquit Olympum."]


s: meaning, also κελευστὴς, the man who gives the signal and cheers


s: on the rowers. See Mollus on Long. Past. iii. 14. So Athenæus,


s: xii. p. 535: Χρυσόγονος μὲν ἤυλει τὸ τριηρικόν. Καλλιπίδης δὲ ὁ


s: τραγῳδὸς ἐκέλευε.]


s: violence decree perverse judgments in the assembly, and drive out


s: Virg. Georg. i. 325: "Et pluvia ingenti sata læta, boumque


s: But when Sarpedon perceived his loose-girt companions subdued by


s: "Oh shame! Lycians, where do ye fly? Now be strenuous: for I will


s: observing that it is τὸ δυϊκὸν ἀντὶ τοῦ πληθυντικοῦ.]


s: "Atque animum nunc huc celerem, nune dividit illuc,


s: In partesque rapit varias, perque omnia versat."


s: Rep. iii. p. 433, B. ed. Læm. finds great fault with Homer for


s: thus debasing the character of Jove. His remarks are reiterated


s: τιθεὶς πολέμοιο ἑῷ μεγαθαρσέϊ παιδί. Tzetzes there refers to the


s: present passage, regarding it as ominous of the death of


s: Sarpedon. Cf. Lomeier, De Lustrationibus, xii. p. 143.]


s: But when, advancing, they were now near each other, then indeed


s: entangled about them, when the side horse lay in the dust. But


s: noble-spirited, among the stamping oxen, and he perishes,


s: together, one thing is clear, that all the meanings which can


s: occur in them, proceed from one, which is that in the epithet of


s: the heart, _dense_ or _compact_, which physical idea the word


s: retains, according to the Homeric usage, in Od. τ. 516, as a


s: fixed epithet of the heart, although there its physical state has


s: xii. Ult. "Vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras."]


s: hereafter be a cause of shame and disgrace to thee, all thy days,


s: foreigner; for many forces followed along with him, among whom he


s: company with Hector, otherwise this passage would be at variance


s: describes a wound as mortal, except when it is inflicted in a


s: was in use among the Cretans, from whose country Meriones had


s: come. See the Scholiast, and Müller, Dorians, vol. ii, p. 349.]


s: necessary to multiply words, but to fight."


s: pillar, for this is the honour of the dead."


s: See Pollux, viii. 14, and the Scriptores Rei Agrim. p. 88, ed.


s: Thus he spoke; nor was Apollo inattentive to his father, but he


s: In the meantime Patroclus, cheering on his steeds, and Automedon,


s: Apollo, threatening fearfully, addressed him:


s: observes: "In Homerica Iliade fuerunt olim qui Σκαιὰς πύλας, quæ


s: Hesychio: ἢ διὰ τὸ σκολιὰς εἶναι κατὰ τὴν εἰσβολήν. Plane uti


s: Servius ad Æn. iii. 351: 'Scæa porta dicta est--nec ab itinere


s: ingressis scævo id est sinistro, quod ingressi non recto sed


s: sinistro eunt itinere, sed a cadavere Laomedontis, hoc est


s: scæomate, quod in ejus fuerit superliminio.' Ita Vitruvius, i. 5,


s: coaluerit. Notio ipsa serius tandem invaluisse videtur:


s: antiquiorem enim Nicandreo locum ignore."]


s: vain, for in the forehead with the sharp stone he smote the


s: tenebratio, atque nebula, cum capitis vertigine."]


s: ἀμφίπτολις, "slavery caused by the capture of a city," Æsch.


s: Empir. adv. Phys. ix. p. 553: "Οταν γάρ, φησίν, ἐν τῷ ὑπνοῦν καθ'


s: προμαντεύεται τε καὶ προαγορεύει τὰ μέλλοντα' τοιαύτη δέ ἐστι καὶ


s: Thus having spoken, he extracted the brazen spear from the wound,


s: But him yellow-haired Menelaus, very indignant, addressed:


s: Plato, Sympos. p. 336, A.: Ἀλλ' ἀπὸ τῶν ἡμετέρων παθημάτων


s: γνόντα, εὐλαβηθῆναι, καὶ μὴ, κατὰ τὴν παροιμίαν, ὥσπερ νήπιον,


s: παθόντα γνῶναι. Æsch. Ag. 177: Τὸν πάθει μάθος θέντα κυρίως


s: ἔχειν--καὶ παρ' ἄκοντας ἤλθε σωφρονεῖν. See Proclus on Hesiod,


s: Thus he spoke, but persuaded him not; but he answering, spoke:


s: of Patroclus, or of either separately. The first alternative he


s: is resolved on guarding against by summoning Ajax to his aid; of


s: the last two, he prefers the abandonment of the arms, _i.e._


s: σύλη, spoliation of the corpse, to ἀείκεια, its


s: Thus he spoke, but he roused the courage of warlike Ajax, and he


s: But Glaucus, the son of Hippolochus, leader of the Lycian heroes,


s: ἐπιπείσεται ἐμοὶ ὤστε αὐτὸν ἰέναι εἰς οἷκον, ἄμεινον ἂν εἴη οὕτως


s: But when cloud-compelling Jove beheld him apart, accoutred in the


s: Thus he spoke; but they, lifting up their spears, advanced with


s: condensed might direct against the Greeks; and their mind eagerly


s: αύτὸ πάντες ὁρμήσαντες. A curious interpretation is given in the


s: Glossaries: "Βοίζω, _post cibum denuo impetum facio."_ See


s: resources,--τὰ ἐκ τῶν κοινῶν καὶ δημοσίων χρημάτων χορηγούμενα


s: τοῖς βασιλεῦσι.--Schol.]


s: Thus he spoke; but quickly the swift Oïlean Ajax heard, and first


s: magnanimous Trojans slay any of them with their spears, although


s: συμβάλλοντες τόποι τῇ θαλάσσῃ, προχοαὶ λέγονται, where he quotes


s: παρ' αὐλὸν be meant the _stream_ of blood, as from a


s: companion by far most dear to him had perished.


s: And thus also would some one of the magnanimous Trojans say:


s: Hellespont nor into the battle among the Greeks; but, as a pillar


s: Hector, the son of Priam, shall not be borne by you, even in the


s: Macrob. vi. 1: "Hastati spargunt hastas, fit ferreus imber." See


s: Columna's notes. p. 82, ed. Hessel. The Scholiast rather


s: interprets it, of a strong and violent shout, στερεὸς καὶ πολὺ


s: Calab. iii. 740: Ούδὲ μιν ἄμβροτοι ἵπποι ἀταρβέος Αἰακίδαο Μίμνον


s: δαϊκταμένου βασιλῆος. Οὐδ' ἔθελον μογεροῖσιν ἔτ' ἀνδράσιν, οὐδὲ


s: μεθ' ἵπποις Μίσγεσθ' Ἀργείων, ὀλοὸν περὶ πένθος ἔχοντες.]


s: see the lugubrious collection of parallel passages in Duport, p.


s: the fabrication of the chariot by the god Vulcan, or to the


s: origin of Achilles himself from a goddess.]


s: Him then Automedon, the son of Diores, addressed:


s: of his friend, who, in this moment of imminent danger, takes upon


s: "O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve,


s: Of thy presumed return! event perverse!"]


s: Thus saying, he called upon the Ajaces, and Menelaus: "Ye Ajaces,


s: honoured, for he was his dear companion in the banquet. Him


s: dwellings at Abydos, was most dear to him of all his guests.


s: Assimilating himself to him, far-darting Apollo spoke:


s: Peneleus, the Bœotian, first was leader of the flight; for he was


s: "Alas! even he who is very stupid might now know that father Jove


s: xxviii.: "Per horrorem tenebrarum--quo tempore hebetari solent


s: obstrictæ terroribus mentes; ut inter innumera multa Ajax quoque


s: Homericus docet, optans perire potius luce, quam pati formidinis


s: Thus he spoke; but the Sire felt compassion for him weeping, and


s: unwilling, from Patroclus went Menelaus, brave in the din of war;


s: "Him, indeed, I have now despatched to the swift ships, to go to


s: But him mighty Telamonian Ajax then answered:


s: and Kennedy would take it, a meaning borne out by προΐδωσιν. Cf.


s: Longus. Past. ii. 12: Οἱ κωμῆται ταραχθέντες, ἐπιπήδωσιν αὐτοῖς


s: ὡσεὶ ψᾶρες, ἢ κολο οί.]


s: Thus they, then, were fighting, like a blazing fire; but


s: message of Antilochus and the grief of Achilles.]


s: "Crinibus Iliades passis, peplumque ferebant


s: Suppliciter tristes, et tunsæ pectora palmis."


s: Ovid, Fast. iv. 454: "Et feriunt mœstæ pectora nuda manus."


s: prosequi crinibus, aut nudatum pectus plangere;" cxv.: "Percussi


s: semel iterumque pectus." See Westerhov, on Ter. Hec. ii. 3, 49;


s: But her swift-footed Achilles addressed, deeply groaning:


s: slaughter of Patroclus, the son of Menœtius."


s: recognized by Hesychius. "If correct," Kennedy says, "it may be


s: explained by the existence of ἔλωρον from ἔλωρ (Hesych. t.i. p.


s: the same analogy as θρέπτρον (iv. 478) the _price of


s: Kypke. Although ἄγραυλοι may simply mean "dwelling in the


s: fields," as in Apollon. Rh. iv. 317, it is better to follow the


s: interpretation of Hesychius: Οἱ ἐν ἀγροῖς διανυκτερεύοντες. But


s: synonymous with αἰδώς. Its meaning is however more forcible, viz.


s: neighbours to behold, if perchance they may come with ships, as


s: Cyn. i. 321; iii. 275. The orthography ἐπίτριμοι is equally


s: as=στρατιὰν, i.e. we shall keep the troops in a body. But see


s: Him, then, crest-tossing Hector sternly regarding, addressed:


s: translates it, "communis Mars belli;" observing, "communis Mars,


s: "And at length thou hast accomplished thy object, O large-eyed,


s: venerable Juno, having aroused swift-fooled Achilles. Surely the


s: waving-crested Greeks are born from thy very self."


s: defer discussing the heroic funeral-rites till the twenty-third


s: But him large-eyed, venerable Juno then answered:


s: distinguished artist, and spoke this word:


s: "Come hither, Vulcan, Thetis now has need of thee."


s: "frequentare." Suidas, Θαμίζεις· πυκνάζεις, συχνάσεις. Plato,


s: Rep. i. p. 410, B.: Οὐδὲ θαμίζεις ἡμῖν καταβαίνων εἰς τὸν ειραιᾶ.


s: and stands to her in the same relation as Athênê to Zeus: her


s: pride and want of sympathy are manifested by her casting him out


s: at once, in consequence of his deformity."--Grote, vol. i. p.


s: perform it, and if it is to be performed."


s: respecting the meaning of _αἴητον_. See Lexil. p. 44-7. He


s: concludes that it simply means _great_, but with a collateral


s: notion of _astonishment_ implied, connecting it with ἀγητός.]


s: Explorare labor:  mini jussa capessere fas est."]


s: according as the progress of the work required. The student will


s: do well to compare Virg. Georg. iv. 171, sqq., Æn. viii. 449,


s: First of all he formed a shield, both large and solid, decorating


s: glittering, and from it [there hung] a silver belt. Of the shield


s: In reading this whole description, care must be taken to allow


s: for the freedom of poetic description, as well as for the skill


s: pursuit of the Wain, which in return seems to observe his


s: movements. Manilius, i. 500: "Arctos et Orion adversis frontibus


s: ibant," which is compared by Scaliger, p. 28.]


s: ὠκεανοῖο. Virg. Georg. i. 246: "Arctos Oceani metuentes æquore


s: tingi." The student of ancient astronomy will do well to compare


s: Scaliger on Manil. i, p. 43, 2; Casaub. on Strabo, i. init.]


s: In it likewise he wrought two fair cities of articulate-speaking


s: brilliant torches, and many a bridal song was raised. The


s: size. But when they now had reached a place where it appeared fit


s: assembly, mounting their nimble-footed steeds, pursued; and soon


s: townsmen should either surrender half their possessions, or


s: submit to indiscriminate pillage. See Kennedy.]


s: larger stature than ordinary folk prevails almost universally in


s: On it he also placed a soft fallow field, rich glebe, wide,


s: On it likewise he placed a field of deep corn, where reapers were


s: But apart, beneath an oak, servants were preparing a banquet, and


s: of Achilles, the lover of poetry should compare Milton, P.L. xi.


s: furrows." See Schneid. on Nicand. Ther. 371.]


s: βασιλεὺς is well in accordance with the simple manners of the


s: early ages, when kings were farmers on a large scale. Many of our


s: On it likewise he placed a vineyard, heavily laden with grapes,


s: baskets, in the midst of whom a boy played sweetly on a shrill


s: reeds. Four golden herdsmen accompanied the oxen, and nine dogs,


s: as to be certain of receiving a good dowry, paid, after the


s: "To resalute the world with sacred light


s: Leucothea waked, and with fresh dews embalm'd


s: immediately addressed to his mother winged words:


s: But him the silver-footed goddess Thetis then answered:


s: been friends, as we now are, than enemies. The construction is


s: interrupted, to suit the agitation of the speaker.]


s: "Hear me, all ye gods and all ye goddesses, whilst I speak those


s: things which the mind within my bosom urges. This day Ilithyia,


s: τέκνον, παραιτία.]


s: have followed Heyne's construing, supplying τινα.]


s: springing forth, quitted the top of Olympus, and came speedily to


s: thinking of Eurystheus but Jove of Hercules.]


s: "Thus she spoke; but sharp grief smote him in his deep mind; and


s: occasioned by Hector, and the laborious tasks imposed by


s: Eurystheus. Such appears to be the force of the


s: οτραγγύεσθαι.]


s: fasting, towards Ilium, about to fight with the Trojans; for the


s: But him the king of men, Agamemnon, in return addressed:


s: "I rejoice, O son of Laërtes, having heard thy speech, for with


s: Him answering, swift-footed Achilles then addressed:


s: But him much-scheming Ulysses answering, addressed:


s: ἐπὶ σαυτῷ δάκρυα, οὐκ ἐπ' ἤματι κατὰ τὸ ἔπος, ὀλοφυρμοι τυχῶν.


s: Thus then he spoke, and dissolved the assembly in haste.


s: Virg. Æn. iv. 226: "Celeres defer mea dicta per auras," which


s: Servius interprets, "celer, vel celeriter."]


s: Æsch. Choeph. 22: Πρέπει παρήϊς φοινίοις ἀμυγμοῖς. Eur. Hel.


s: λευκὸν ὄνυχα δίὰ παρηΐδων, αἱματηρὸν ἄταν. Artemidor. i. Ἐν τοῖς


s: πένθεσι λάβωνται τὰς παρείας οἱ ἄνθρωποι. See Comm. on Petron.


s: contract of marriage. See Feith, Antiq. Hom. ii. 13, 3.]


s: So saying, he dismissed the other kings: but two sons of Atreus


s: posteis portasque refregit." Virg. Æn. i. 298: "Claudentur belli


s: property, my servants, and my great, lofty-domed abode. For now I


s: Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,


s: Behind him cast; the broad circumference


s: He spoke, and shouting amongst the front ranks, directed on his


s: Jove permits the gods to join in the battle, and they take their


s: But him cloud-compelling Jove answering, addressed:


s: Thus spoke Saturnian Jove, and he stirred up the unyielding


s: contest; and the gods hastened to proceed to the battle, having


s: discordant minds. Juno, indeed, and Pallas Minerva [went] to the


s: preserver, useful Mercury. Against Vulcan also was the great


s: literally _unbending, unyielding, not to be turned_, became the


s: epithet of a violent, uncontrollable, incessant tumult, battle,


s: Cynthium." Tibull. i. 4, 37: "Solis æterna est Phœbo, Bacchoque


s: juventa: hanc decet intonsus crinis utrumque Deum." Various


s: reasons are assigned for this; such as, "quia occidendo et


s: renascendo semper est juvenior," Fulgent. Myth. i. 17; or, "quod


s: ipse sit sol, et sol ignis est, qui nunquam senescit," Lutat. on


s: Stat. Theb. i. 694. The inhabitants of Hieropolis, however,


s: worshipped a bearded Apollo.--Macr. Sat. i. 17.]


s: towards the sea-coast, on the other side of the Simoïs,


s: commanding the entire plain. Hence it is the rendezvous of the


s: derive σῶκως from σωσίοικος, the former connecting it with


s: ἐριούνιος, ὁ μεγάλως ὀνίσκων, τοῦτ' ἔστι ὀφελῶν.]


s: But him Æneas, answering, addressed in turn:


s: But him again king Apollo, the son of Jove, addressed:


s: But her then earth-shaking Neptune answered:


s: shoulders; whilst on the other side they sat upon the tops of


s: vigorous youths has wounded him with a dart, yawning, he collects


s: for man's life, see Virg. Ecl. iv. 46; Catullus, lxiv. 328. But


s: this passage of Homer seems to imply the ancient notion, that the


s: danger, cf. Liv. i. xvi. where Proculus beseeches the apparition


s: of Romulus "ut contra intueri fas esset." See intpp. on Exod.


s: spurious, with Ernesti. It is wanting in MS. Lips, and ed. Rom.,


s: and does not appear to have been read by Eustathius.]


s: where the gods seek a similar place of observation.]


s: way of a warrior, who, whilst he is preparing to rush on his


s: enemy, or expecting his attack, draws himself up together, or, as


s: But him Æneas answered in turn, and said:


s: Dardanus. And he built Dardania, for sacred Ilium, the city of


s: vol. i. p. 387, where the whole legend of Troy is admirably


s: discussed. Cf. Virg. Æn. i. 292; iii. 167, where the Roman poet


s: has made use of Homer in tracing the pedigree of Æneas to Jove.]


s: character and position of Æneas throughout the Iliad, deserve


s: Homer to enable us safely to assert, from a comparison of them,


s: that it never has (at least in his writings) the more general


s: meaning of _to be useful, to help_, but, without an exception,


s: the more definite sense of _to ward off_..... by examining


s: passages we find, that even where no accusative is expressed, the


s: But him large-eyed venerable Juno then answered:


s: He spoke, and sprang into the ranks, and cheered on every man:


s: a town in the northern coast of the Peloponnese, out of which the


s: was shown there. See Müller, id. p. 74.]


s: He spoke, and sternly regarding [him], addressed noble Hector:


s: But him, not daunted, crest-tossing Hector addressed:


s: stupified, like fawns. And he bound their hands behind them with


s: τ' ἐρειπίων. Aristid. Panath. p. 142: Ὡς δὲ ἑώρα τὴν θάλατταν


s: αἵματι καὶ ῥοθίῳ ῥέουσαν, καὶ πάντα νέκρων καὶ ναυαγίων μεστά.]


s: "O gods! surely I perceive this, a great marvel, with mine eyes.


s: Thus he pondered, remaining still; but near him came Lycaon, in


s: διαπέρασας, έπώλησας. See Schol. on ver. 40.]


s: "Fool, talk not to me of ransom, nor, indeed, mention it. Before


s: "Lie there now with the fishes, which, without concern, will lap


s: the blood of thy wound; nor shall thy mother weep, placing thee


s: βορὰν [ύμᾶς] ίχθύων θήσω καταδύσας.]


s: time, for he was ambidexter. With the one spear he struck the


s: gravitate senatorias actiones et Romanæ rei monumenta limasti, ut


s: But him swift-footed Achilles, answering, addressed:


s: the _afternoon_; but he observes, p. 223, that in the present


s: passage, "it is not the Attic δείλη ὀψία, with which it has been


s: compared, but by the force of δύων, the actual sunset of evening.


s: to be used with reference only to the time past, something in


s: this way: 'Thou shouldst assist the Trojans until the sun sinks


s: renders it "through him," _i.e._ through Achilles.]


s: Homer described as reaching from one of its banks to the other,


s: affords a very just idea of the breadth of the Scamander at the


s: season when we saw it."--Wood on Homer, p. 328.]


s: "O father Jove, how does none of the gods undertake to save me,


s: miserable, from the river! Hereafter, indeed, I would suffer


s: anything. But no other of the heavenly inhabitants is so culpable


s: death by drowning, and I care not how I perish afterwards. The


s: Scholiast compares the prayer of Ajax in p. 647: Ἐν δὲ φάει καὶ


s: They indeed having thus spoken, departed to the immortals. But he


s: But when the white-armed goddess Juno heard this, she straightway


s: Thus she spoke; and Vulcan extinguished his glowing fire, and the


s: directions. They engaged with a great tumult, and the wide earth


s: "Fool, hast thou not yet perceived how much I boast myself to be


s: Thus she spoke; but the white-armed goddess Juno smiled. And the


s: ἐβούκολησε, τοιόσδε ἦν, οἷος τότε ἐφάνθη Δάφνις.]


s: But him the far-darting king, Apollo, in turn addressed:


s: turns from side to side, and whilst thus shifting her position


s: lets fall her arrows, ὀϊστοί, ver. 492." Others by τόξα


s: But him the fair-crowned mistress of the chase addressed in turn:


s: Meanwhile aged Priam stood upon a lofty tower, and observed huge


s: Achilles: but by him the routed Trojans were easily thrown into


s: sighing, he thus addressed his own great-hearted soul:


s: So saying, gathering himself up, he awaited Achilles; and his


s: similar use of καλχαίνειν. The present metaphor is taken from


s: the troubled and darkling aspect of the sea before a storm.]


s: So ἄνδρες πολῖται, Phlegon. Trall, p. 26. Ἄνδρες δημόται,


s: Aristoph. Plut. 254. Ἀνὴρ βασιλεὺς, Palæphatus, 39. Ἀνὴρ


s: "Certainly now thou art great in hopes in thy mind, O illustrious


s: But him swift-footed Achilles, greatly indignant, addressed:


s: In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair


s: piteously addressed him, stretching out his hands:


s: shedding tears, addressed to him winged words: "O Hector, my son,


s: horribly, coiling itself around its den; so Hector, possessing


s: "Abdiel that sight endured not, where he stood


s: Among the mightiest, bent on highest deeds,


s: And thus his own undaunted heart explores."]


s: Sat. i. 4. "Ne mihi Polydamas, et Troiades Labeonem


s: γερούσιον öορκον. It means an oath to be solemnly kept, an oath


s: to which the elders might with propriety pledge themselves.]


s: prize-winning solid-hoofed steeds ran very swiftly round the


s: But him the blue-eyed goddess Minerva then addressed:


s: swift-footed son of Peleus. As often as he would rush against the


s: But her mighty crest-tossing Hector in turn addressed:


s: But him the azure-eyed goddess Minerva in turn addressed:


s: "My brother dear, my father and venerable mother indeed greatly


s: But him swift-footed Achilles sternly regarding, addressed:


s: But him crest-tossing Hector, growing languid, then addressed:


s: "Fairest of stars, last in the train of night,


s: If better thou belong not to the dawn."]


s: But him swift-footed Achilles, sternly regarding, addressed;


s: But him crest-tossing Hector, dying, addressed:


s: "Surely well knowing thee, I foresaw this, nor was I destined to


s: Πιστὸς ἀνὴρ χρυσοῦ τε καὶ άργύρου άντερύσασθαι Ἄξιος.]


s: the Trojans, and chasing them into the town, Achilles was slain


s: near the Skæan gate by an arrow from the quiver of Paris,


s: directed under the unerring auspices of Apollo," referring to


s: the death or calamity of others, and accounted it as a judgment


s: upon them for being on the other side, and against them in the


s: contention: but within the revolution of a few months, the same


s: man met with a more uneasy and unhandsome death; which when I


s: saw, I wept, and was afraid; for I knew that it must be so with


s: all men; for we also die, and end our quarrels and contentions by


s: μεγάθεος εἵνεκα κα κάλλεος.]


s: Thus would some one say, and, standing by, would wound him. But


s: deliberate these things? Patroclus lies at the ships, an unwept,


s: Silo translated ap. _Senec. Suas_. c. 2. The most ancient hymn of


s: sorrow to the grave." --Genes, xlii. 38.]


s: Thus having spoken, she rushed through the palace like unto one


s: death. But when she again revived, and her soul was collected in


s: the banquet, striking him with his hands, and reviling him with


s: Thus she spoke, weeping, and the females also mourned.


s: οὶ γovεῖς περίεισι.]


s: of the city." This piece of twaddle has not been omitted by Plato


s: man-slaughtering hands upon the breast of his companion:


s: ὄλεθρίου θρήνου ἀπολαύσωμεν. Ernesti well observes that


s: τεταρπώμεσθα implies "delight mingled with satiety."]


s: λάλαξαν δὲ οἱ ἄνδρες. Among the Romans this rite was called


s: honours at the tomb of Achilles, that Achilles had bestowed upon


s: the manes of his friend Patroclus. See also Bernart on Stat.


s: having their throats cut, and many sheep and bleating goats. Many


s: κατοιχομένων τιμῇ.--Hesych.]


s: l. c.; and Lomeier de Lustrationibus, § xxxi.]


s: the _personification_ of Ὅρκος, observes on this passage: "I see


s: no reason why we should not suppose that in the poet's mind


s: Jupiter was put in opposition to ὅρκον, exactly in the same sense


s: άμφοτέροις. Further, the expressions μέγας όρκος, κάρτερος ὅρκος


s: suit much better the idea of the witness or pledge of the oath,


s: discussion, regards καμόντες as an euphemism, "by which the dead,


s: But him swift-footed Achilles, answering, addressed:


s: applied to the shades of the suitors of Penelope.]


s: reason and judgment, with Duport, Gnom. p. 128, and Jeremy


s: Taylor, Holy Dying, p. 524, ed. Bohn. But ver. 100 seems to


s: require the interpretation which I have followed; Clarke


s: But when they had thrown on all sides immense quantities of wood,


s: appropriation of sound to sense. Pope has admirably imitated the


s: original by the following translation:--


s: "O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks, they go."


s: O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,


s: With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way,


s: And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies."]


s: capitis exuvias cape, laceræque frontis accipe abscissam comam."


s: The custom is learnedly illustrated by Bernart on Stat. Theb. vi.


s: Ἀπόλλωνι καὶ ποταμοῖς οὶ νέοι ἀπέτεμον τὰς κόμας, διὰ τὸ αύξήσεως


s: Nat. i. p. 6, and Blomf. on Æsch. Choeph. s. init., with my own


s: note. Statius, Achill. i. 628, "Quærisne meos, Sperchie, natatus,


s: "In vain, O Sperchius, did my father Peleus vow to thee, that I,


s: "O son of Atreus (for to thy words the people of the Greeks most


s: especially hearken), it is possible to satiate oneself even with


s: But when the king of men, Agamemnon, heard this, he immediately


s: this way and that, and laid the body upon the summit of the pile,


s: expediency of terminating the lamentations of the army at large,


s: and leaving what remains to be performed in honour of the


s: deceased to his more particular friends."--Kennedy.]


s: notes of Stephens on Saxo Grammat. p. 92.]


s: likewise placed vessels of honey and oil, and, sighing deeply,


s: ὑψώσαντο, γάλακτι δὲ ποιμένες αἰγῶν Ἔῤῥαναν ξανθῷ μιξάμενοι


s: μέλιτι. Compare the similar libations to the dead in Eur. Orest.


s: followers of Odin. See Olaus Magnus, iii. 3, and Mallet, Northern


s: deceased, see my note on Eurip. Alcest. 625, t. i. p. 231, ed.


s: indicate _magnitude_, and Heyne accordingly renders it:


s: "magnitudine fere hac," the speaker being supposed to use a


s: maintained to express, not merely the _shining aspect_, but the


s: newness of the metal; as λενκὸν in 268. This is ingenious; but


s: why not receive it as expressive of colour, and borrowed from


s: that to which the metal itself supplies a well-known epithet,


s: unchanged_, in opposition to common changes, λενκὸν ἔθ΄ αὕτως,


s: still in _that_ its original state, completely unblackened with


s: fire; and ω. 413; of the body of Hector, ἀλλ' ἔτε κεῖνος κεῖται.


s: Αὕτως, in _that_ state in which he was before, still free from


s: but the racecourse around is level: either it is the monument of


s: "τανύσῃ, viz. δρόμον σὺν ἱμᾶσιν. Thus τάθη δρόμος, ver. 375. The


s: same ellipsis occurs in the following verse, in the case of ἔχει,


s: usual in the latter language."--Kennedy.]


s: and I think correctly, of a wide track in the open plain becoming


s: ἀμφίς they took in the opposite sense of χωρίς, or still more


s: forced. Heyne, however, understood it quite correctly of the wide


s: which, in the distance, stood also the mark chosen by Achilles,


s: ver. 359. Others see in this passage the course winding round the


s: drawn out for the purpose; whereas this monument was selected by


s: Achilles for the goal or mark quite arbitrarily, and by his own


s: choice; and Nestor, ver. 332, only conjectures that it might have


s: public places. Cf. Theocrit. vi. 10; Virg. Eel. ix. 55;


s: σημαίνεσκε δρόμου τέλος ὠκυτάτοιο Ἀτρείδης.]


s: put to the stretch," as the Oxford Translator well, but freely,


s: solid-hoofed steeds should clash in the road, and overturn the


s: facile, non sine gravi labore ac difficultate consequi possent,


s: quod peterent, sive qui rem valde difficilem


s: But him swift Ajax, the son of Oïleus, bitterly reproached:


s: "Idomeneus, why dost thou prate endlessly? Those high-prancing


s: mares run over the vast plain afar. Neither art thou so much the


s: But him the leader of the Cretans, indignant, answered in turn:


s: in connection with a verb of such import, as in xviii.


s: μάρτυρας ἐπί τινι χρήματι, sic nunc τρίποδος περιδώμεθα est


s: δώμεθα ὅρκον περὶ τρίποδος, quem pœnæ loco daturus erit uter


s: the Scholiast, have interpreted δίκη. That would have required


s: Thus he spoke; and swift-footed, noble Achilles smiled, favouring


s: "O Antilochus, hitherto prudent, what hast thou done? Thou hast


s: other of the Greeks will blame me, for it will be just."


s: But him prudent Antilochus in turn answered:


s: "Antilochus, now indeed will I cease being enraged with thee, for


s: inferior in battle, I am superior in boxing?"--Oxford Transl.]


s: Next, for the archers, he staked iron fit for making arrows, and


s: "Whosoever indeed shall strike the timid dove, taking up all the


s: splendid prize to the herald Talthybius.


s: ἔκειτο, πυκνὰ μὲν πρὸς έκατέραν πλευρὰν τὸ σῶμα διαστρέφουσα.


s: Chariton quotes the line of Homer, when describing the uneasy