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238
Ibid. 275, 220.
239
Il. ix. 198.
240
In 237 he appears to follow what Achilles had said i. 170.
241
Il. ii. 241, 2.
242
Il. ii. 229-31.
243
xxi. 40, 79. xxii. 44.
244
246-56.
245
Grote’s Hist. Greece, vol. ii. 95, 6.
246
Ibid. pp. 96, 98.
247
Il. ii. 198.
248
Ibid. 190, 200.
249
vv. 271-8.
250
Il. ii. 270.
251
Il. xviii. 502.
252
Il. vii. 381.
253
Sup. p. 100.
254
Od. iii. 139.
255
Od. ii. 212.
256
Od. ii. 239-41.
257
Griech. Staatsv. b. ii. p. 57.
258
Od. ii. 257. Il. i. 305.
259
Od. vii. 151.
260
Od. vii. 189-94, 317.
261
Od. viii. 7-15.
262
The number deserves remark. Fifty, as we know from the Catalogue, was a regular ship’s crew of rowers. What were the two? Probably a commander, and a steersman. The dual is used in both the places where the numbers are mentioned (κρινάσθων, ver. 36, κρινθέντε, 48, βήτην, 49). There are other passages where the dual extends beyond the number two, to three and four. See Nitzsch, in loc. But the use of it here with so large a number is remarkable, and may be best explained by supposing that it refers to the δύω, who were the principal men of the crew, and that the fifty are not regarded as forming part of the subject of the verb. If this be so, the passage shows us in a very simple form the rudimentary nautical order of the Greek ships.
263
Od. viii. 38.
264
Od. viii. 158-64.
265
Od. viii. 157.
266
Probably the strictly proper name of the Assembly, as distinguished from the place of meeting, is ἄγυρις or πανήγυρις (as Od. iii. 131), but the name common to the two prevails.
267
Od. xxiv. 463.
268
Od. xxiv. 546.
269
Besides all the particulars which have been cited, we have incidental notices scattered about the poems, which tend exactly in the same direction. For example, when Chryses prays for the restitution of his daughter, his petition is addressed principally to the two Atridæ, but it is likewise addressed to the whole body of Ἀχαιοὶ (Il. i. 15), that is, either to the entire army, or at any rate to all the kings; or, to all the members of the Achæan race. This we may compare with the application of the prayer of Ulysses in Scheria to the king and people.
270
Il. viii. 28, 9. ix. 430, 1.
271
Il. viii. 38-40.
272
Il. i. 5.
273
Il. iv. 17-19.
274
Od. ii. 68, 9.
275
Il. xviii. 497.
276
Il. xi. 807.
277
Od. ix. 112-15.
278
Tittmann Griech. Staatsv. b. ii. p. 56.
279
Il. ix. 404.
280
Achæis, or Ethnology, sect. ix. p. 496.
281
Il. viii. 47, 8.
282
Il. iii. 298.
283
Il. iv. 48.
284
Il. xxi. 442 seqq. vii. 459. xii. 17.
285
Olympus, sect. iii. p. 197.
286
Il. vi. 298-300. 305-10.
287
Il. v. 446.
288
Il i. 37-9.
289
Il. vii. 540. xiii. 827.
290
Il. i. 457.
291
Il. v. 49.
292
Il. v. 421-5. 348-51. iii. 405-9.
293
Il. v. 9. and 20-4.
294
Il. xiv. 490.
295
Il. iii. 103. 116.
296
Il. xviii. 239.
297
Il. xxiv. 234-5.
298
Il. vi. 289-92.
299
Herod. ii. 50.
300
Döllinger Heid. u. Jud. VI. iii. p. 411.
301
Rhea (ἔρα) shows us the fourth and cosmogonic side of the same conception.
302
Olympus, sect. iii. p. 234.
303
Il. xiv. 490.
304
Il. xxiv. 194.
305
Olympus, sect. v.
306
Il. xxiv. 347, 355, 358-60.
307
Il. v. 77.
308
Il. ix. 575.
309
Od. xv. 223 and seqq.
310
Il. xxi. 331 and seqq.
311
Il. xx. 7.
312
Il. xxi. 130-2.
313
Il. iv. 474, 488.
314
Il. v. 49.
315
Od. v. 445.
316
Il. xxiii. 144.
317
Il. xi. 728.
318
Il. xx. 221.
319
Il. iii. 147-9. xv. 525-7.
320
Il. xiv. 271. xv. 37.
321
Il. 2. 751-5.
322
Compare Il. iii. 276. xix. 258.
323
Il. xx. 74.
324
Il. xxi. 308.
325
Od. xiii. 356.
326
Od. xiii. 103.
327
Ibid. 96.
328
Od. xvii. 208-11.
329
Il. vi. 21.
330
Il. xiv. 444.
331
Il. xx. 384.
332
Il. xxii. 435. xxiv. 209.