[{187a}] ’Ου γαρ σιτον εδουα’, ου πινουσ’ αιθοπα οινον.
“—Not the bread of man their life sustains,
Nor wine’s inflaming juice supplies their veins.”
See Pope’s Homer’s “Iliad,” book v. 1. 425.
[{187b}] Greek, υποβεβρεγμενοι.
[{187c}] See the beginning of the second book of the “Iliad.”
[{188a}] Apollo is always represented as imberbis, or without a beard, probably from a notion that Phoebus, or the sun, must be always young.
[{188b}] See Homer’s “Iliad,” book xviii. 1. 134.
[{189}] See Homer’s “Iliad,” book ii. 1. 238.
[{190}] Greek, θρεμματα, what Virgil calls, ignavum pecus.