_--Ver. 176. This was a city of the
Troad, on the taking of which by Achilles, Hippodamia, or Briseis,
the daughter of Bryses, was made captive by Achilles.]

[Footnote 30: _Grief of one._--Ver. 181. He alludes to the
misfortune of Menelaues in losing his wife, if, indeed, it could be
deemed a misfortune.]

[Footnote 31: _Antenor._--Ver. 201. Antenor, who was related to
Priam, always advocated peace with the Greeks; for which reason,
according to Livy, the Greeks did not treat him as an enemy.]

[Footnote 32: _Surround the trenches._--Ver. 212. He probably
alludes to the trenches thrown up before the ships of the Greeks,
and defended by embankments, which were afterwards destroyed by
Neptune.]

[Footnote 33: _I am sent._--Ver. 215. As on the occasion when he
was sent to restore Chryseis to her father Chryses, the priest of
Apollo, that the pestilence might be stayed, which had been sent
by the offended God.]

[Footnote 34: _Thersites._--Ver. 233. He was the most deformed,
cowardly, and impudent of the Greeks, who, always abusing his
betters, was beaten by Ulysses, and was at last killed by Achilles
with a blow of his fist.]

[Footnote 35: _Compelled him._--Ver. 245. When he was taken
prisoner by them, Ulysses and Diomedes compelled Dolon to disclose
what was going on in the Trojan camp, and learned from him the
recent arrival of Rhesus, the son of either Mars or Strymon, and
the king of Thrace.]

[Footnote 36: _Sarpedon._--Ver. 255. He was the son of Jupiter and
Europa, and was king of Lycia. Aiding the Trojans, he was slain by
Patroclus.]

[Footnote 37: _In their place._--Ver. 263. That is, inflicted on
the breast, and not on the back.]

[Footnote 38: _A single wound._--Ver. 267. He alludes to his being
invulnerable, from having been wrapped in the lion's skin of
Hercules.]

[Footnote 39: _Dared to engage._--Ver. 275. Hector and Ajax
Telamon meeting in single combat, neither was the conqueror; but
on parting they exchanged gifts, which were fatal to them both.
Hector was dragged round the walls of Troy by the belt which he
received from Ajax; while the latter committed suicide with the
sword which was given to him by Hector.]

[Footnote 40: _Dardanian prophet._--Ver. 335. Helenus, the son of
Priam.]

[Footnote 41: _The hidden statue._--V