as an ancient custom for warriors to dedicate trophies of this
kind to the temples of their tutelary deities.

4. [The club-bearer.]

5. [It is a word used by Dryden.]

6. Homer refers every thing, even the chance of the lots, to the
disposition of the gods.

7. [Agamemnon.]

8. The lot was merely a piece of wood or shell, or any thing of the
kind that was at hand. Probably it had some private mark, and not
the name, as it was only recognized by the owner.

9. This reply is supposed to allude to some gesture made by Ajax in
approaching Hector.

10. The heralds were considered as sacred persons, the delegates of
Mercury, and inviolable by the laws of nations. Ancient history
furnishes examples of the severity exercised upon those who were
guilty of any outrage upon them. Their office was, to assist in the
sacrifices and councils, to proclaim war or peace, to command
silence at ceremonies or single combats, to part the combatants and
declare the conqueror.

11. This word I have taken leave to coin. The Latins have both
substantive and adjective. _Purpura--Purpureus._ We make purple
serve both uses; but it seems a poverty to which we have no need to
submit, at least in poetry.--TR.

12. A particular mark of honor and respect, as this part of the victim
belonged to the king. In the simplicity of the times, the reward
offered a victorious warrior of the best portion of the sacrifice
at supper, a more capacious bowl, or an upper seat at table, was a
recompense for the greatest actions.

It is worthy of observation, that beef, mutton, or kid, was the
food of the heroes of Homer and the patriarchs and warriors of the
Old Testament. Fishing and fowling were then the arts of more
luxurious nations.

13. [The word is here used in the Latin sense of it. Virgil,
describing the entertainment given by Evander to the Trojans, says
that he regaled them

Perpetui _tergo bovis et lustralibus extis._
AEN. viii.

It means, the whole.--TR.]

Footnotes for Book VIII:
1. An epithet of Aurora, supposed to designate an early hour.

2. Many have explained this as an allegorical expression for one of
the great laws of nature--gravity or the attraction of the sun.
There is not the slightest probability that any such meaning is
intended.--FELTON.

3. A part of Mt. Ida. This place was celebrated, in subs