instead of the
sword and lance, they fought with darts, bows and arrows, or
slings, and were generally attached in a subordinate capacity to
the heavy-armed soldiery.

18. Homer puts a prayer in the mouth of Menelaues, but none in that of
Paris. Menelaues is injured and innocent, and may therefore ask for
justice; but Paris, who is the criminal, remains silent.

19. [Because the hide of a beast that dies in health is tougher and
fitter for use than of another that dies diseased.]

Footnotes for Book IV:
1. The goddess of youth is made an attendant at the banquets of the
gods, to show that they enjoyed a perpetual youth, and endless
felicity.

2. [A town of that name in Boeotia, where Pallas was particularly
worshipped.--TR.]

3. [{Boopis}, constant description of Juno, but not susceptible of
literal translation.]

4. Homer does not make the gods use all persons indiscriminately as
their agents, but each according to his powers. When Minerva would
persuade the Greeks, she seeks Ulysses; when she would break the
truce, for Pandarus; and when she would conquer, for Diomede. The
goddess went not to the Trojans, because they hated Paris, and
looks among the allies, where she finds Pandarus, who was of a
nation noted for perfidiousness, and who, from his avarice, was
capable of engaging in this treachery for the hope of a reward from
Paris.

5. A city of Asia Minor.

6. This description, so full of circumstantial detail, is remarkably
beautiful. 1. The history of the bow, giving in a few words the
picture of a hunter, lying in ambush and slaying his victim.
2. Then the process of making the bow. 3. The anxious preparation
for discharging the arrow with certainty, which was destined to
break off the truce and precipitate the battle. 4. The hurried
prayer and vow to Apollo, after which the string is drawn, the cord
twangs, the arrow "leaps forth." The whole is described with such
graphic truth, that we see, and hear, and wait in breathless
suspense to know the result.--FELTON.

7. This is one of those humble comparisons with which Homer sometimes
diversifies his subject, but a very exact one of its kind, and
corresponding in all its parts. The care of the goddess, the
unsuspecting security of Menelaus, the ease with which she diverts
the danger, and the danger itself, are all included in these few
words. To which may