note 8: _No informer._--Ver. 34. He alludes to the means
which Ulysses adopted to avoid going to the Trojan war. Pretending
to be seized with madness, he ploughed the sea-shore, and sowed it
with salt. To ascertain the truth, Palamedes placed his infant
son, Telemachus, before the plough; on which Ulysses turned on one
side, to avoid hurting the child, which was considered a proof
that his madness was not real.]

[Footnote 9: _Son of Nauplius._--Ver. 39. Palamedes was the son of
Nauplius, the king of Euboea, and a son of Neptune.]

[Footnote 10: _The contrivance._--Ver. 38. Ulysses forged a letter
from Priam, in which the king thanked Palamedes for his intended
assistance to the Trojan cause, and begged to present him a sum of
money. By bribing the servants of Palamedes, he caused a large
quantity of gold to be buried in the ground, under his tent. He
then caused the letter to be intercepted, and to be carried to
Agamemnon. On the appearance of Palamedes to answer the charge,
Ulysses appeared seemingly as his friend, and suggested, that if
no gold should be found in his possession, he must be innocent.
The gold, however, being found, Palamedes was stoned to death.]

[Footnote 11: _Son of Poeas._--Ver. 45. Philoctetes was the
possessor of the arrows of Hercules, without the presence of which
Troy could not be taken. Accompanying the Greeks to the Trojan
war, he was wounded in the foot by one of the arrows; and the
smell arising from the wound was so offensive, that, by the advice
of Ulysses, he was left behind, in the island of Lemnos, one of
the Cyclades.]

[Footnote 12: _Is being clothed._--Ver. 53. The Poet Attius, as
quoted by Cicero, says that Philoctetes, while in Lemnos, made
himself clothing out of the feathers of birds.]

[Footnote 13: _Or by death._--Ver. 61. Exile in the case of
Philoctetes; death, in that of Palamedes.]

[Footnote 14: _Forsaking of Nestor._--Ver. 64. Nestor having been
wounded by Paris, and being overtaken by Hector, was on the point
of perishing, when Diomedes came to his rescue, Ulysses having
taken to flight. See the Iliad, Book iii.]

[Footnote 15: _And upbraided._--Ver. 69. He alludes to the words
in the Iliad, which Homer puts in the mouth of Diomedes.]

[Footnote 16: _And covered him._--Ver. 75. Ajax, at the request of
Menelaue