[28] Iliad XVIII. 497-508.

[29] Or perhaps, to him who best proved his case.

[30] Iliad IX. 96-99.

[31] Odyssey XXI. 16-21.

[32] Iliad XVI. 38-39. Patroclus says to him, "If thou art deterred by some divine command from fighting thyself, yet let me go and give me thy people, the Myrmidons (i.e. the Phthiotians)": and Achilles (lines 49-65) replies, "I have been wronged and therefore will not fight: thou shalt wear my armour and command the Myrmidons."

[33] Iliad II. 53, IX. 9-17, 89-95.

[34] Odyssey XI. 489 θητευέμεν.

[35] Grote's Greece, octavo edition vol. I. p. 487, cabinet edition vol. II. p. 98.

[36] Tac. Germ. 16. Nullas Germanorum populis urbes habitari satis notum est, ne pati quidem inter se junctas sedes. Colunt discreti ac diversi, ut fons, ut campus, ut nemus placuit.

[37] Odyssey I. 424 κακκείοντες ἔβαν ϝοικόνδε ϝέκαστος.