proposed, had in view not only the
honorable but the useful; a captive for work, a bull for tillage, a
quoit for the provision of iron, which in those days was scarce.

26. [The use of this staff was to separate the cattle. It had a string
attached to the lower part of it, which the herdsman wound about
his hand, and by the help of it whirled the staff to a prodigious
distance.--Villoisson.]--TR.

27. [The transition from narrative to dramatic follows the
original.]--TR.

28: [Apollo; frequently by Homer called the King without any
addition.]--TR.

29: Teucer is eminent for his archery, yet he is excelled by Meriones,
who had not neglected to invoke Apollo the god of archery.

Footnotes for Book XIV:
1. This is the first allusion in the Iliad to the _Judgment of Paris_,
which gave mortal offence to Minerva and Juno. On this account it
has been supposed by some that these lines are spurious, on the
ground that Homer could not have known the fable, or he would have
mentioned it earlier in the poem.--FELTON.

2. [His blessing, if he is properly influenced by it; his curse in its
consequences if he is deaf to its dictates.]--TR.

3. [This is the sense preferred by the Scholiast, for it is not true
that Thetis was always present with Achilles, as is proved by the
passage immediately ensuing.]--TR.

4 [The angler's custom was, in those days, to guard his line above the
hook from the fishes' bite, by passing it through a pipe of
horn.]--TR.

5. [Jupiter justifies him against Apollo's charge, affirming him to be
free from those mental defects which chiefly betray men into sin,
folly, improvidence, and perverseness.]--TR.

6. [But, at first, he did fly. It is therefore spoken, as the
Scholiast observes, {philostorgos}, and must be understood as the
language of strong maternal affection.]--TR.

7. [{koroitypiesin aristoi}.]

8. [Through which the reins were passed.]--TR.

9. [The yoke being flat at the bottom, and the pole round, there would
of course be a small aperture between the band and the pole on both
sides, through which, according to the Scholium in Villoisson, they
thrust the ends of the tackle lest they should dangle.]--TR.

10. [The text here is extremely intricate; as it stands now, the sons
are, first, said to yoke the horses, then Priam and Idaeus are said
to do it, and in the palace too. I have therefore adopted an