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 BOOK II

26:8. Myrmidons or the Dolopes. The soldiers of Achilles, who was the fiercest of the Greeks.

26:9. Ulysses. King of "Ithaca's rocky isle," husband of "faithful Penelope." His wanderings are the subject of Homer's Odyssey. Homer's stock epithet is "the very crafty."

27:18. Laocoon. A priest of Apollo appointed to act as priest of Neptune. The famous group of Laocoon and his two sons in the coils of the twin serpents, of the Pergamenian type of sculpture, was discovered in the baths of the Emperor Titus, and stands in the Belvidere of the Vatican Museum.

29:8. Calchas. Priest of the Greeks.

29:14. Sons of Atreus. Agamemnon, king of Mycenæ, commander-in-chief of the Greeks, and his brother Menelaus of Sparta, former husband of Helen.

29:27. Phœbus. Apollo, god of prophecy.

31:16. Palladium. Statue of Pallas, the Greek goddess identified by the Romans with Minerva, goddess of wisdom, of household arts, and of war. Also called Tritonia.

32:7. Pelops. Son of Tantalus and father of Atreus. He was served up as food for the gods by his father, restored to life by Jupiter, and furnished with an ivory shoulder in place of the one eaten at the banquet. He gained control of the Peloponnesus, or Morea, which was named for him. The use here, another case of the specific for the generic, is in place of Greece itself.