TE III.

Bk. xix. l. 712 (Hom. xix. l. 573).--The word +pelekeas+, for
which Cowper gives as a paraphrase "spikes, crested with a ring,"
elsewhere means _axes_, and ought so to be translated here. For since
Cowper's day an axe-head of the Mycenaean period has been discovered _with
the blade pierced_ so as to form a hole through which an arrow could
pass. (See Tsountas and Manatt, _The Mycenaean Age_.) Axes of this type
were not known to Cowper, and hence the hypothesis in his text. He
realised correctly the essential conditions of the feat proposed: the
axes must have been set up, one behind the other, in the way he suggested
for his ringed stakes.

NOTE IV.

Bk. xxii. l. 139-162 (Hom. xxii. l. 126-143).--How Melanthius got out of
the hall remains a puzzle. Cowper assumes a second postern, but there is
no evidence for this, and l. 139 ff. (l. 126 ff. in the Greek) suggest
rather strongly that there was only _one_. Unfortunately, the crucial
word +rhoges+ which occurs in the line describing Melanthius' exit
is not found elsewhere. "He went up," the poet says, "through the
+rhoges+ of the hall." Merry suggests that "he scrambled up to the
loopholes that were pierced in the wall." Others suppose that there was a
ladder at the inner end of the hall leading to the upper story, and on
through passages to the armoury.

In l. 141 (l. 128 in the Greek) the word translated "street" by Cowper is
usually rendered "corridor."

F. M. S.

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A LIST OF THE 812 VOLUMES ARRANGED UNDER AUTHORS

_Anonymous works are given under titles._
_Anthologies, etc., are arranged at the end of the list._

Abbott's Rollo at Work, etc., 275

Addison's Spectator, 164-167

AEschylus' Lyrical Dramas, 62

AEsop's and Other Fables, 657

Aimard's The Indian Scout, 428

Ainsworth's Tower of London, 400
" Old St. Paul's, 522
" Windsor Castle, 709
" The Admirable Crichton, 804

A'Kempis' Imitation of Christ, 484

Alcott's Little Women, and Good Wives, 248
" Little Men, 512

Alpine Club. Peaks, Passes and Glaciers, 778

Andersen's Fairy Tales, 4

Anglo-Saxon Poetry, 794

Anson's Voyages, 510

Aristophanes' The Acharnians, etc., 344
" The Frogs, etc., 516

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, 547
" Politics, 605

Armour's Fall of the Nibelung, 31