ds, they are made to come at her
bidding.

10 [Such it appears to have been in the sequel.]--TR.

11. [{Phiale}--a vessel, as Athenaeus describes it, made for the
purpose of warming water. It was formed of brass, and expanded
somewhat in the shape of a broad leaf.]--TR.

12. The poet omits no opportunity of paying honor to Nestor. His age
has disabled him from taking an active part in the games, yet,
Antilochus wins, not by the speed of his horses, but by the wisdom
of Nestor.

13. [This could not happen unless the felly of the wheel were nearly
horizontal to the eye of the spectator, in which case the chariot
must be infallibly overturned.--There is an obscurity in the
passage which none of the commentators explain. The Scholiast, as
quoted by Clarke, attempts an explanation, but, I think, not
successfully.]--TR.

14. [Eumelus.]

15. [Resentful of the attack made on him by Diomede in the fifth
Book.]

16. [The twin monster or double man called the Molions. They were sons
of Actor and Molione, and are said to have had two heads with four
hands and four feet, and being so formed were invincible both in
battle and in athletic exercises. Even Hercules could only slay
them by stratagem, which he did when he desolated Elis. See
Villoisson.]--TR.

17. [The repetition follows the original.]--TR.

18. [{parakabbale}.]

19. [With which they bound on the cestus.]--TR.

20: [{tetrigei}--It is a circumstance on which the Scholiast observes
that it denotes in a wrestler the greatest possible bodily strength
and firmness of position.--See Villoisson.]--TR.

21: [I have given what seems to me the most probable interpretation,
and such a one as to any person who has ever witnessed a
wrestling-match, will, I presume, appear intelligible.]--TR.

22. [The Sidonians were celebrated not only as the most ingenious
artists Footnote: but as great adepts in science, especially in
astronomy and arithmetical calculation.]--TR.

23. [King of Lemnos.]

24. [That is to say, Ulysses; who, from the first intending it, had
run close behind him.]--TR.

25. The prodigious weight and size of the quoit is described with the
simplicity of the orientals, and in the manner of the heroic ages.
The poet does not specify the quantity of this enormous piece of
iron, but the use it will be to the winner. We see from hence that
the ancients in the prizes they