ouse--quite a significant local mythus, which is
here related, like others in the usual tone of heroic
mythology.--MULLER.

8. This passage is an exact description and perfect ritual of the
ceremonies on these occasions. Achilles, urgent as the case was,
would not suffer Patroclus to enter the fight, till he had in the
most solemn manner recommended him to the protection of Jupiter.

9. [Meges.]

10. [Brother of Antilochus.]

11. [{amaimaketen}--is a word which I can find nowhere satisfactorily
derived. Perhaps it is expressive of great length, and I am the
more inclined to that sense of it, because it is the epithet given
to the mast on which Ulysses floated to Charybdis. We must in that
case derive it from {ama} and {mekos} Dorice, {makos}--longitudo.

In this uncertainty I thought myself free to translate it as I
have, by the word--monster.]--TR.

12. [Apollonius says that the {ostea leuka} here means the
{opondylous}, or vertebrae of the neck.--See Villoisson.]--TR.

13. [{'Amitrochitonas} is a word, according to Clarke, descriptive of
their peculiar habit. Their corselet, and the mail worn under it,
were of a piece, and put on together. To them therefore the
cincture or belt of the Greeks was unnecessary.]--TR.

14. According to the history or fable received in Homer's time,
Sarpedon was interred in Lycia. This gave the poet the liberty of
making him die at Troy, provided that after his death he was
carried into Lycia, to preserve the fable. In those times, as at
this day, princes and persons of rank who died abroad, were carried
to their own country to be laid in the tomb of their fathers.
Jacob, when dying in Egypt, desired his children to carry him to
the land of Canaan, where he wished to be buried.

15. [Sarpedon certainly was not slain _in the fleet_, neither can the
Greek expression {neon en agoni} be with propriety interpreted--_in
certamine de navibus_--as Clarke and Mme. Dacier are inclined to
render it. _Juvenum in certamine_, seems equally an improbable
sense of it. Eustathius, indeed, and Terrasson, supposing Sarpedon
to assert that he dies in the middle of the fleet (which was false
in fact) are kind enough to vindicate Homer by pleading in his
favor, that Sarpedon, being in the article of death, was delirious,
and knew not, in reality, where he died. But Homer, however he may
have been charged with