Leapt from the upturned brazen helm.”
The custom of using the helmet, for the situla or urn, when lots were taken in war, must have been noted by the most superficial student of Homer. Stan. has collected many instances, of which one may suffice—
“Quickly, in the brazen helm, we shake the lot; and first of all,
Of Eurylochus, mighty-hearted, leapt the lot.”—Odyssey X. 206.
“At the Netaean gate.”
So called from Neis, a son of Zethus, the brother of Amphion. Pausan. IX. 8; Unger. p. 313.
“Black smoke, the volumed sister of the flame.”
Just as Homer, in a familiar passage, calls “sleep the mother of death” (Il. XIV. 231), adopted by Shelley in the exquisite exordium of Queen Mab—