alteration suggested by Clarke, who with very little violence to
the copy, proposes instead of {zeugnysthen} to
read--{zonnysthen}.]--TR.

11. [The words both signify--sable.]--TR.

12. Priam begins not with a display of the treasures he has brought
for the redemption of Hector's body, but with a pathetic address to
the feelings of Achilles. Homer well knew that neither gold nor
silver would influence the heart of a young and generous warrior,
but that persuasion would. The old king therefore, with a judicious
abruptness, avails himself of his most powerful plea at once, and
seizes the sympathy of the hero, before he has time to recollect
who it is that addresses him.

13. [Mortified to see his generosity, after so much kindness shown to
Priam, still distrusted, and that the impatience of the old king
threatened to deprive him of all opportunity to do gracefully what
he could not be expected to do willingly.]--TR.

14. [To control anger argues a great mind--and to avoid occasions that
may betray one into it, argues a still greater. An observation that
should suggest itself to us with no little force, when Achilles,
not remarkable either for patience or meekness, exhorts Priam to
beware of provoking him; and when having cleansed the body of
Hector and covered it, he places it himself in the litter, lest his
father, seeing how indecently he had treated it, should be
exasperated at the sight, and by some passionate reproach
exasperate himself also. For that a person so singularly irascible
and of a temper harsh as his, should not only be aware of his
infirmity, but even guard against it with so much precaution,
evidences a prudence truly wonderful.--Plutarch.]--TR.

15. [{'Epikertomeon}. Clarke renders the word in this place, _falso
metu, ludens,_ and Eustathius says that Achilles suggested such
cause of fear to Priam, to excuse his lodging him in an exterior
part of the tent. The general import of the Greek word is
sarcastic, but here it signifies rather--to intimidate. See also
Dacier.]--TR.

16. The poet here shows the importance of Achilles in the army.
Agamemnon is the general, yet all the chief commanders appeal to
him for advice, and on his own authority he promises Priam a
cessation of arms. Giving his hand to confirm the promise, agrees
with the custom of the present day.

17. This lament of Andromache may be