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Rh Tantares, or Pantares, king of the East Indies, who sent his General Memnon, and some wild beasts to help him. An anecdote is told of Priam, by Lydgate, which perhaps is not mentioned in older histories. See Life and Death of Hector, c. vii. p. 104.

Mr. Bryant in his Observ. on the Brit. Critic, p. 86, compares the extent of Priam's empire to ‘’Glamorganshire’’, See also Wood on Homer, p. 268, and Blackwell's Life of Homer, p. 286.

Page xvi.xvii. [sic] The battle bled.] Pausanias (lib. x. c. 25, &c.) gives a minute analysis of a very interesting picture by Polygnotus, representing the destruction of Troy, and the Greeks just preparing to sail to their native land. He observes that it differs considerably from the account of Homer. Among the figures, Hector is seen with both hands on his left knee, looking like a man weighed down with sorrow. Next to him, Memnon is sitting on a stone; and close to him, Sarpedon, leaning with his face on both his hands, but one of Memnon's hands is placed on the shoulder of Sarpedon. Penthesilea, with a bow in her hand, and a leopard's skin on her shoulder, is looking on Paris, and by her countenance seems to despise him. Menelaus is represented on board his ship preparing to depart from Troy; in the ship, boys and men are seen standing together; and the pilot Phrontes is distributing the oars. Nestor is painted with a hat on his head, and a spear in his hand; a horse rolling on the sand is seen near him. Palamedes and Thersites are represented playing at dice; the Oilean Ajax is looking at the play; his colour is that of a seafaring man, and his body is wet with the foam of the sea. In the second Excurs. to the Æn. iii. p. 426. Heyné has a Dissertation on the year or month in which Troy was taken. See also Dodwell de Cyclis, p. 803. 4to.

Page xx. Gentle companions.] Bees were called by the Greeks, to, the flock without a shepherd. Pausan. Ant. lib. i. c. xxxii. says, that the Halyonian bees were so gentle that they would go out foraging along with the men in the fields.

Page xxvi. Brutus' colours.] In the beginning of the last century the learned Camden was obliged to undermine