ight be offensive.]--TR.

2. The earliest form of an oath seems to have been by the elements of
nature, or rather the deities who preside over them.--TROLLOPE.

3. In the following speech, Jupiter discloses the future events of the
war.

4. The illustration in the following lines is one of the most
beautiful in Homer. The rapid passage of Juno is compared to the
speed of thought, by which a traveller revisits in imagination the
scenes over which he has passed. No simile could more exalt the
power of the Goddess.--FELTON.

5. The picture is strikingly true to nature. The smile upon the lip,
and frown upon the brow, express admirably the state of mind in
which the Goddess must be supposed to have been at this
moment.--FELTON.

6: [_To tempest_--{kydoimeson}--Milton uses _tempest_ as a verb.
Speaking of the fishes, he says

... part, huge of bulk
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
_Tempest_ the ocean.]--TR.

7. The Furies are said to wait upon men in a double sense; either for
evil; as upon Orestes after he had killed his mother, or else for
their good, as upon elders when they are injured, to protect them
and avenge their wrongs. The ancients considered birth-right as a
right divine.

8. [{Troes de proutypsan aollees}. The translation is literal, and
affords one of many instances in which the Greek and English idiom
correspond exactly.]--TR.

9. [Arcesilaues.]

10. [This abruptness of transition from the third person to the first,
follows the original.]

11. [The translator hopes that his learned readers will pardon him, if
sometimes, to avoid an irksome cacophony, he turns brass into
steel. In fact, arrow had not a point of steel, but a brazen
one.]--TR.

12. This sentiment is noble and patriotic. It is in strict keeping
with the character of Hector, who always appears as his country's
champion, and ready to die in her defence. Our sympathies go with
him; we involuntarily wish him success, and deplore his misfortune,
though we admire the invincible courage of his more fortunate
antagonist. His actions and sentiments, springing from the simplest
feelings of our nature, will always command applause, and, under
all circumstances, and every form of political existence, will be
imitated by the defenders of their country.

The speech of Ajax is animating and powerful. It is conceived in
the true