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They heap'd his tomb, while, posted on all sides,
Suspicious of assault, spies watch'd the Greeks.
The tomb once heap'd, assembling all again
Within the palace, they a banquet shared
Magnificent, by godlike Priam given. 1010

Such burial the illustrious Hector found.[20]

* * * * *

[I cannot take my leave of this noble poem, without expressing how
much I am struck with this plain conclusion of it. It is like the exit
of a great man out of company whom he has entertained magnificently;
neither pompous nor familiar; not contemptuous, yet without much
ceremony. I recollect nothing, among the works of mere man, that
exemplifies so strongly the true style of great antiquity.]--TR.

FOOTNOTES

Footnotes for Book I:
1. "Latona's son and Jove's," was Apollo, the tutelary deity of the
Dorians. The Dorians had not, however, at this early age, become
the predominant race in Greece proper. They had spread along the
eastern shores of the Archipelago into the islands, especially
Crete, and had every where signalized themselves by the Temples of
Apollo, of which there seems to have been many in and about Troy.
These temples were schools of art, and prove the Dorians to have
been both intellectual and powerful. Homer was an Ionian, and
therefore not deeply acquainted with the nature of the Dorian god.
But to a mind like his, the god of a people so cultivated, and
associated with what was most grand in art, must have been an
imposing being, and we find him so represented. Throughout the
Iliad, he appears and acts with splendor and effect, but always
against the Greeks from mere partiality to Hector. It would perhaps
be too much to say, that in this partiality to Hector, we detect
the spirit of the Dorian worship, the only Paganism of antiquity
that tended to perfect the individual--Apollo being the expression
of the moral harmony of the universe, and the great spirit of the
Dorian culture being to make a perfect man, an incarnation of the
{kosmos}. This Homer could only have known intuitively.

In making Apollo author of the plague, he was confounded with
Helios, which was frequent afterwards, but is not seen elsewhere in
Homer. The arrows of Apollo were "silent as light," and their
emblem the sun's rays. The analog