s, protected Ulysses with his shield, when he was wounded.]

[Footnote 17: _Fall to my lot._--Ver. 85. He alludes to the
occasion when some of the bravest of the Greeks drew lots which
should accept the challenge of Hector: the Greeks wishing,
according to Homer, that the lot might fall to Ajax Telamon, Ajax
Oileus, or Agamemnon.]

[Footnote 18: _Rhesus._--Ver. 98. He was slain by Ulysses and
Diomedes on the night on which he arrived, Iliad, Book x.]

[Footnote 19: _Dolon._--Ver. 98. Being sent out by Hector to spy,
he was intercepted by Ulysses and Diomedes, and slain at Troy.
Iliad, Book x.]

[Footnote 20: _Helenus._--Ver. 99. Being skilled in prophesy,
after he was taken prisoner by Diomedes and Ulysses, his life was
saved; and marrying Andromache, after the death of Pyrrhus, he
succeeded to the throne of part of the kingdom of Chaonia.]

[Footnote 21: _Dulichian._--Ver. 107. Dulichium was an island of
the Ionian Sea, near Ithaca, and part of the realms of Ulysses.]

[Footnote 22: _The spear._--Ver. 109. The spear of Achilles had
been cut from the wood on Mount Pelion, and given by the Centaur
Chiron to his father Peleus.]

[Footnote 23: _He through whom._--Ver. 134. Through whom Achilles
had been discovered, concealed among the daughters of Lycomedes,
king of Seyros.]

[Footnote 24: _Ever condemned._--Ver. 145. He alludes to the joint
crime of Peleus the uncle, and Telamon, the father of Ajax, who
were banished for the murder of their brother Phocus.]

[Footnote 25: _Through the mother._--Ver. 146. Anticlea, the
mother of Ulysses, was the daughter of Autolycus, of whom Mercury
was the father by Chione, the daughter of Daedalion.]

[Footnote 26: _Phthia._--Ver. 156. Phthia was the city of
Thessaly, where Peleus, the father of Achilles, was residing;
while Pyrrhus, his son, was living with his mother Deidamia,
in the isle of Scyros, one of the Cyclades.]

[Footnote 27: _Teucer._--Ver. 157. Teucer was the cousin of
Achilles, being the son of Telamon, and the half-brother of Ajax;
Hesione being the mother of Teucer, while Ajax was the son of
Euboea.]

[Footnote 28: _Chrysa._--Ver. 174. Chrysa and Cylla were cities in
the vicinity of Troy. This Scyros was, probably, not the island of
that name, but some place near Troy.]

[Footnote 29: _Lyrnessian.