and leave thine own house.

He knew also the custom of having stewards (O. ii. 226):--

He it was to whom Odysseus, as he departed in the fleet, had
given the charge over all his house that it should obey the
old man, and that he should keep all things safe.

Grief at the death in one's household he thinks should not be
unmeasured; for this is unworthy, nor does he allow it altogether to
be repressed; for apathy is impossible for mankind, whence he says the
following (I. xxiv. 48):--

He mourns and weeps, but time his grief allays,
For fate to man a patient mind hath given.

Other places he says (I. xix. 228):--

Behooves us bury out of sight our dead
Steeling our hearts and weeping but a day.

He also knew the customs used now at funerals, in other passages and in
the following (I. xvi. 456):--

There shall his brethren and his friends perform
His fun'ral rites, and mound and column raise
The fitting tribute to the mighty dead

And as Andromache says (before) the naked and prostrate body of Hector
(I. xxii. 509):--

But now on thee, beside the beaked ships
Far from thy parents, when the rav'ning dogs
Have had their fill, the wriggling worms shall feed
In thee all naked; while within thy house
Lies store of raiment, rich and rare, the work
Of women's hands: these I will burn with fire
Not for thy need--thou ne'er shalt wear them more
But for thine honor in the sight of Troy.

So, too, Penelope prepares the shroud (O. ii. 99):--

Even this shroud for the hero Laertes.

But these are examples of moderation. But exceeding these are the living
creatures and men Achilles burns on the pyre of Patroclus. He tells us
of them, but does not do so in words of praise. Therefore he exclaims
(I. xxi. 19):--

On savage deeds intent.

And he first of all mentions monuments to the slain (I. vii. 336):--

And on the plains erect
Around the pyre one common pyre for all.

And he gave the first example of funeral games. These are common to
times of peace and war.

Experience in warlike affairs, which some authorities call Tactics, his
poetry being varied by infantry, siege, and naval engagements, and also
by individual contests, covers many types of strategy. Some of these are
worth mentioning. In drawing up armies it is necessary always to put the
cavalry in front, and after it the infantry. Thi