2.]

[Footnote 321: _I. e._ the boar.]

[Footnote 322: On the legend of this war, see Apollodor. i. 8, 2;
Callimach. Ib. Dian. 216; Ovid, Met. viii. 260. A catalogue of
the heroes who accompanied Meleager is given by Hyginus, Fab.
clxxiii.]

[Footnote 323: See Antonin. Liberal. Met. Sec. 2. who follows Homer
rather closely.]

[Footnote 324: Literally, "digesting."]

[Footnote 325: See n. 2, p. 41, and on the death of Meleager, by
his mother burning a fatal brand, Apollodor. i. c.; Zenobius
Cent. Adag. v. 33; Anton. Lib. Met. Sec. 2.]

[Footnote 326: _I. e._ the Calydonians.]

[Footnote 327: This catalogue of the horrors of war seems to have
been in the minds of Sallust, Cat. Sec. 51, and Cicero, Or. iv. in
Catil.]

[Footnote 328: Rudolf on Ocellus Lucan. p. 266, well observes,
"Antiquissimis temporibus, quorum repetere memoriam possumus,
[Greek: daimon] nihil aliud erat, quam deus. Horn. Od. g, 165,
160; Il. g, 420; II. l, 791. Neque in eo vocabuli discrimen est,
si aut prosunt hominibus, aut iis nocent; utroque enim modo
[Greek: daimones] dicuntur." Kennedy and some of the translators
have erred on this point.]

[Footnote 329: _I. e._ [Greek: kath' emisu]. See Heyne.]

He said, and in silence nodded to Patroclus from beneath his brows, that
he should strew a thick bed for Phoenix, whilst they were meditating to
withdraw as quickly as possible from the tent. But them godlike
Telamonian Ajax addressed:

"O Jove-born son of Laertes, crafty Ulysses, let us go, for the object
of our address appears not to me to be attainable, in this way at least,
and we must report the message to the Greeks with all haste, although it
be not good. They now sit expecting us; but Achilles stores up within
his breast a fierce and haughty soul, unyielding; nor does he regard the
friendship of his companions, with which we have honoured him at the
ships beyond others. Merciless one! and truly some one hath accepted
compensation even for a brother's death, or his own son slain, whilst
[the murderer] remains at home among his people, having paid many
expiations: and the mind and noble soul of the other is appeased upon
his having received compensation. But in thy breast the gods have put an
unyielding and evil mind, for the sake of a maid only; whereas we now
offer thee seven far excelling, and many other gifts beside them. Do
thou then assume a propitious disposi