the hand of a woman, thou wouldst
rather have fallen by the Thermodontean[53] battle-axe.

Now that dread of the Phrygians, the glory and defence of the Pelasgian
name, the grandson of AEacus, a head invincible in war, had been burnt:
the same Divinity had armed him,[54] and had burned him. He is now {but}
ashes; and there remains of Achilles, so renowned, I know not what; that
which will not well fill a little urn. But his glory lives, which can
fill the whole world: this allowance is befitting that hero, and in this
the son of Peleus is equal to himself, and knows not the empty Tartarus.
Even his very shield gives occasion for war, that you may know to whom
it belongs; and arms are wielded for arms. The son of Tydeus does not
dare to claim them, nor Ajax, the son of Oileus,[55] nor the younger son
of Atreus, nor he who is his superior both in war and age, nor {any}
others; the hope of so much glory exists only in him begotten by Telamon
and {the son} of Laertes. The descendant of Tantalus[56] removes from
himself the burden and the odium {of a decision}, and orders the Argive
leaders to sit in the midst of the camp, and transfers the judgment of
the dispute to them all.

[Footnote 48: _Tlepolemus._--Ver. 537. He was a son of Hercules,
by Astioche.]

[Footnote 49: _Polydamas._--Ver. 547. He was a noble Trojan, of
great bravery, who had married a daughter of Priam.]

[Footnote 50: _Rhodian fleet._--Ver. 575. Tlepolemus, when a
youth, slew his uncle, Lycimnius, the son of Mars. Flying from his
country with some followers, he retired to the Island of Rhodes,
where he gained the sovereignty. He went to the Trojan war with
nine ships, to aid the Greeks, where he fell by the hand of
Sarpedon.]

[Footnote 51: _After the son._--Ver. 578-9. 'A sermone senis
repetito munere Bacchi Surrexere toris.' These words are thus
quaintly rendered in Clarke's translation: 'From listening to the
old gentleman's discourse, they return again to their bottle; and
taking the other glass, they departed.']

[Footnote 52: _Smintheus._--Ver. 585. Apollo was so called, in
many of the cities of Asia, and was worshipped under this name,
in the Isle of Tenedos. He is said by Eustathius, to have been so
called from Smynthus, a town near Troy. But, according to other
accounts, he received the epithet from the Cretan word +sminthos+,
a mouse; being supposed to prote