this
message to the chiefs of the Greeks, for such is the office of
ambassadors, that they devise within their minds some other better plan,
which for them may preserve their ships, and the army of the Greeks in
the hollow barks; since this, which they have now devised, is not
expedient for them, while I cherish my wrath. But let Phoenix, remaining
here, recline beside us, that to-morrow, if he will, he may follow me
in the ships to my dear fatherland, although I will by no means lead him
away by compulsion."

[Footnote 303: This word is etymologically connected with [Greek:
trngon]. It properly signifies the moaning of the dove.]

[Footnote 304: Schol. [Greek: perisson ti esti]. Kennedy explains
it: "nor have all the toils which I have undergone been
productive of any superior advantage to me."]

[Footnote 305: See a list of these cities in Heyne's note.]

[Footnote 306: Observe the broken construction, well suited to
the irritability of the speaker.]

[Footnote 307: Cf. Cicero de Div. i. 25.]

[Footnote 308: [Greek: "Erron, epi phthora."] (ita etym. magn.)
[Greek: paragenomenos]. Cf. Alberti on Hesych. t. i. p. 1445.]

[Footnote 309: "[Greek: Ekelos] forcibly expresses the condition
of one who is advancing imperceptibly, though surely, to final
ruin."--Kennedy].

[Footnote 310: See Kennedy, and Duport, Gnom. p. 52, who compare
the phrases "pilo minus amare", "pili facere." There is, however,
much uncertainty respecting the origin and meaning of the
proverb. Cf. Alberti on Hesych. t. i. p. 1246.]

[Footnote 311: "Thebes was the centre of Egyptian power and
commerce, probably long before Memphis grew into importance, or
before the Delta was made suitable to the purposes of husbandry
by the cutting of canals and the raising of
embankments."--Egyptian Antiquities, vol. i. p. 66.]

[Footnote 312: Although Denon (see Egypt. Antt. p. 62) regards
this as an unmeaning expression, Heyne well observes: "numerus
centenarius ponitur pro magno: et portis semel memoratis,
multitudo hominum declaratur per numerum exeuntium."]

[Footnote 313: Cf. Mueller, Dorians, vol. i. pp. 26, 268.]

Thus he spoke; but they all became mute in silence, marvelling at his
speech, for he answered with much vehemence. At length, however, the
aged knight, Phoenix, addressed him, shedding tears, for he greatly
feared for the ships of the Greeks:

"If inde