[213] Iliad, VII. 83 and IV. 508.; see [p. 145-6], [257].
[214] See note ([+]), p. 218.
[215] This recals to mind Homer’s frequent mention of the blasts of Boreas.—[Ed.]
[216] See Cut, No. 9, [p. 27].
[217] Dr. Schliemann afterwards assigned these Corinthian pillars to the time of Constantine. (See [Chapter XXII]., p. 320, and Introduction, p. 30.—[Ed.])
[218] Strabo, XIII., pp. 100, 101, Tauchnitz edition.
[219] Velleius Paterculus, II. 102.
[220] See Cut, No. 13, [p. 35].
[221] The serpents’ heads, found so frequently among the ruins of Troy, cannot but recal to mind the superstitious regard of Homer’s Trojans for the reptile as a symbol, and their terror when a half-killed serpent was dropped by the bird of Jove amidst their ranks (Iliad, XII. 208, 209):—
Τρῶες δ’ ἐρρίγησαν, ὅπως ἴδον αἰόλον ὄφιν
Κείμενον ἐν μέσσοισι, Διὸς τέρας αἰγιόχοιο.
“The Trojans, shuddering, in their midst beheld
The spotted serpent, dire portent of Jove.”