.

7. [By some call'd Antibia, by others, Nicippe.]--TR.

8. It was unlawful to eat the flesh of victims that were sacrificed in
confirmation of oaths. Such were victims of malediction.

9. Nothing can be more natural than the representation of these
unhappy young women; who, weary of captivity, take occasion from
every mournful occurrence to weep afresh, though in reality little
interested in the objects that call forth these expressions of
sorrow.--DACIER.

10. Son of Deidameia, daughter of Lycomedes, in whose house Achilles
was concealed at the time when he was led forth to the war.

11. [We are not warranted in accounting any practice unnatural or
absurd, merely because it does not obtain among ourselves. I know
not that any historian has recorded this custom of the Grecians,
but that it was a custom among them occasionally to harangue their
horses, we may assure ourselves on the authority of Homer, who
would not have introduced such speeches, if they could have
appeared as strange to his countrymen as they do to us.]--TR.

12. Hence it seems, that too great an insight into futurity, or the
revelation of more than was expedient, was prevented by the
Furies.--TROLLOPE.

Footnotes for Book XX:
1. [This rising ground was five stadia in circumference, and was
between the river Simois and a village named Ilicon, in which Paris
is said to have decided between the goddesses. It was called
Callicolone, being the most conspicuous ground in the neighborhood
of the city.--Villoisson.]--TR.

2. [Iris is the messenger of the gods on ordinary occasions, Mercury
on those of importance. But Themis is now employed, because the
affair in question is a council, and to assemble and dissolve
councils is her peculiar Province. The return of Achilles is made
as magnificent as possible. A council in heaven precedes it, and a
battle of the gods is the consequence.--Villoisson.]--TR.

3. [The readiness of Neptune to obey the summons is particularly
noticed, on account of the resentment he so lately expressed, when
commanded by Jupiter to quit the battle.--Villoisson.]--TR.

4. The description of the battle of the gods is strikingly grand.
Jupiter thunders in the heavens, Neptune shakes the boundless earth
and the high mountain-tops; Ida rocks on its base, and the city of
the Trojans and the ships of the Greeks tremble; and Pluto leaps
from h