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892

Il. xxi. 307, et seqq.

893

Il. v. 777.

894

Il. xii. 22.

895

Æn. vi. 724-893.

896

We cannot safely assume the second Νεκυΐα of Od. xxiv. to be free from interpolations.

897

Homer has used this figure; but in an entirely different connection, Il. viii. 13-16.

898

Æn. vi. 503.

899

Æn. ii. 27. vi. 88.

900

Æn. xi. 239-270.

901

Æn. vi. 529.

902

Od. xvi. 118.

903

Æn. iii. 104.

904

Æn. vi. 63.

905

Scott and Liddell, in voc.

906

Æn. x. 255. Cf. i. 618, Phrygius Simois; vii. 597, et alibi.

907

Il. iii. 184.

908

Il. xii. 436.

909

Il. viii. 18.

910

Ibid. 134. Cf. vi. 650.

911

Æn. iii. 104.

912

Æn. iii. 109.

913

Apollod. III. xii. 1.

914

Æn. vi. 63.

915

Æn. ii. 634.

916

Il. xxii. 331-47.

917

Il. xxiii. 775-81. Æn. v. 333, 356.

918

Ibid. 329.

919

Ibid. 286-90.

920

Æn. viii. 185.

921

Æn. v. 370.

922

Æn. viii. 523.

923

Æn. ii. 601.

924

Il. iii. 164.

925

Il. iii. 453, and elsewhere.

926

Æn. vi. 460.

927

Od. v. 215-24.

928

Il. xix. 86. When Achilles (270) as it were countersigns this, it is evidently in his character of a high-bred gentleman; a character, of which he gives so many proofs in the poem.

929

Æn. vii. 648; viii. 7, 482.

930

Æn. x. 773, 880.

931

Il. xxii. 365.

932

Æn. x. 743.

933

Æn. vii. 633.

934

Il. ii. 544.

935

Il. iii. 330.

936

Od. xi. 315.

937

Georg. i. 281.

938

Æn. iv. 248-51.

939

Il. ix. 484, and xvi. 196.

940

Æn. ii. 7.

941

Æn. vi. 432.

942

Although it may be a deviation from the direct path, yet, having noticed in so much detail the unfaithfulness of Virgil to his original, I will also give an instance of the accuracy of Horace. In the Seventh Ode of the First Book, he has occasion to refer to the places made famous in Homeric song; and Athens with him is Palladis urbs; so Argos (ἱππόβοτον) is aptum equis, Mycænæ (πολύχρυσος) dites, Larissa (ἐριβώλαξ) opima. Lacedæmon is patiens, an epithet corresponding with no particular word in Homer, but not contradicted by any; it had acquired the character since his time.

943

Il. v. 303. See also Il. xx. 285.

944

Il. xii. 382.

945

Ibid. 445-50.

946

Homer names a Demoleon, son of Agenor; but he is slain fighting for the Trojans. Il. xx. 395.

947

Æn. vi. 233.

948

The aim of the poet as such is finely, but somewhat too exclusively, expressed in the Sonnet of Filicaja, Dietro a questi ancor io.

949

Od. xvii. 385.

950

Od. xxii. 331.

951

Od. iii. 267.

952

De Civ. Dei, i. 3.

953

Ibid. viii. 4-11.

954

Gerus. xix. 36.

955

Ibid. 37.

956

Od. xi. 311.

957

Gerus. iv. 6.

958

Hallam’s Literature of Europe, ii. 268.

959

Lett. Ital., vol. vii.

960

Il. ix. 646.

961

Gerus. xx. 55.

962

Ibid. 54.

963

Gerus. v. 36.

964

Gerus. xx. 63.

965

Ib. 64.

966

Ib. 65.

967

Ib. 136.

968

Il. xvii. 51.

969

Gerus. v. 12.

970

Ibid. 151.

971

Il. i. 188.

972

La Riforma Cattolica, lately published at Turin, with an excellent preface by Massari.

973

Ger. v. 20.

974

Character of Hector, Lit. Greece, vol. i. p. 347.

975

Ger. xvii. 69.

976

Il. vii. 312.

977

Ibid. 109.

978

Ibid. 161.

979

Il. xii. 445-71.

980

Ib. 392-407.

981

Il. xi. 186-90.

982

Il. xi. 349-67.

983

Ib. 502-7.

984

Ib. 660.

985

Il. vi. 127.

986

Mure, i. 352.

987

p. 85.

988

Il. xx. 434.

989

Il. vi. 479.

990

Vol. i. pp. 349, 60.

991

See sup. Ilios, pp. 196-205.

992

Il. iii. 39 and xiii. 769.

993

Il. iii. 46-51.

994

Ib. 76.

995

Il. vi. 403.

996

Ilios, pp. 219-23.

997

Il. vi. 447.

998

2 Samuel i. 26.

999

Il. vi. 521.

1000

Il. ix. 337.

1001

See Heyne on Il. ii. 356. G. C. Crusius (Hanover. 1845, on do.) Chapman translates in the same sense; but Voss refers the outsetting and the groans to Helen herself; so too the Scholiasts.

1002

Il. ii. 356, 590.

1003

Il. ii. 590.

1004

On Pope’s Il. iii. 165.

1005

Il. xxiv. 770.

1006

Il. iii. 162.

1007

Ibid. 130.

1008

Il. xxiv. 768-72.

1009

Ibid. 775.

1010

Il. xvi.

1011

Il. ix. 336.

1012

Od. xxiii. 222.

1013

Od. iv. 122.

1014

Il. iii. 429 cf. 163. See Ilios, pp. 200, 203.

1015

Od. iii. 272.

1016

Od. iv. 262; Il. xxiv. 764.

1017

Il. iii. 400-2.

1018

Ibid. 174.

1019

Ibid. 442-4.

1020

Il. xiii. 626.

1021

Il. vi. 355.

1022

Il. xxiv. 768.

1023

Il. iii. 139.

1024

See Damm on ἀργεννός.

1025

Il. vi. 344, 356; Od. iv. 145.

1026

Od. iv. 184, 254.

1027

Il. iii. 236-42. Cf. Il. iii. 404. and xxiv.

1028

The expression is θυμὸν ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ὄρινεν. The verb is used by Homer most commonly to denote apprehension (as in Il. iv. 208. xv. 7. xvi. 280, 509. xviii. 223); though it also sometimes signifies other kinds of excitement, such as anger or surprise.

1029

383-98.

1030

Il. vi. 321-5.

1031

Il. xxiv. 760-75.

1032

Od. iv. 13.

1033

Od. iv. 274.

1034

Od. iv. 276.

1035

Lycophron, 168; Schol. on Il. xxiv. 251. In the Troades of Euripides she is introduced, saying that Deiphobus took her by force, against the will of the Phrygians (Trojans), 954-5.

1036

Orl. Fur. iv. 66.

1037

Book ii. ch. viii. sect. 20.

1038

Il. iii. 437-48.

1039

Ibid. 428.

1040

Il. xi. 368-79, 581-4, 505-7.

1041

Il. xi. 385.

1042

Il. iii. 454.

1043

Il. vi. 339.

1044

Il. iii. 43, 51.

1045

Il. vi. 372.

1046

See note p. 500. sup.

1047

Schlegel, Lect. iii. vol. i. p. 81; Donaldson, Greek Theatre, sect. ii.

1048

Hecuba, 429, 924-31.

1049

Troades, 132, 377.

1050

Ver. 770.

1051

Ver. 855-78.

1052

Ver. 900.

1053

Ver. 909-60.

1054

I do not remember to have seen the principles of Isocrates rigorously applied in modern literature, excepting in the Adrienne de la Cardonnaye of M. Eugène Sue’s Le Juif Errant.

1055

Hel. Enc. 61.

1056

Ibid. 47.

1057

Ibid. 54.

1058

Il. ii. 875.

1059

Od. xviii. 366-75.

1060

Il. ii. 260.

1061

Od. i. 58.

1062

Od. v. 215-20.

1063

Od. iv. 285-8.

1064

In proof of the establishment of this curious usage in our literature, (which attracted the notice of Selden,) see Mawmet, Maumetry in Richardson’s Dictionary, with the illustrative passages.

1065

Tro. 285-9, 1216.

1066

Hor. Ep. I. ii. 18.

1067

Hor. Epist. I. ii. 1-31.

1068

Æn. ii. 90. et seqq.

1069

Æn. vi. 628.

1070

Æn. iii. 272. sup. p. 522.

1071

Pind. Nem. iii. 43-64.

1072

Epithal. Pel. and Thet. 339-372.

1073

Hor. A. P. 120. It will be remembered that the ruthless Bentley struck out even the honoratum of the text, and, with an audacity surpassing his great ingenuity, put in Homereum.

1074

Il. i. 122.

1075

Ib. 149.

1076

Stat. Achill. i.

1077

Act v. sc. 5.

1078

Achilleis, v. 163.

1079

Seneca, Troades, 765. Ibid. 609 et seqq.

1080

Act iv.

1081

Ibid. 685.

1082

Prologue to Dryden’s Troilus and Cressida; and again in the Epilogue spoken by Thersites:

‘You British fools, of the old Trojan stock.’

1083

Hist. Greece, ch. i. sect. iv.

1084

Gerus. ii. 59.

1085

Gerus. ii. 58.

1086

Stevens on Troilus and Cressida.

1087

Chaucer’s Troilus and Cressida, book iv.

1088

Act iii. sc. 1.

1089

Act iv. sc. 1.

1090

Troilus and Cressida, v. 9.

1091

Ibid. v. 10.

1092

Dryden’s Troil. and Cress., act ii. sc. 3.

1093

Act v. sc. 2.

1094

Acte iii. sc. 5.

1095

Acte iv. sc. iii.

1096

Acte iii. sc. 3.

1097

Il. i. 27.

1098

Od. iv. 220-6.

1099

Od. x. 287.