Understanding of the field,—
and (I. ii. 785):—
They crossed the field,—
just as if he had used the preposition "through."
A fine example of change of case is found in the beginning of both his poems:—
Sing, O Muse, the vengeance, etc., whence to Greece unnumbered
ills arose.
Tell me, Muse, of that man, of many a shift and many the woes
he suffered.
Sometimes after the genitive he brings in the nominative, as in this (I. i. 272):—
Of others who are now mortal.
He arranges many things in figures in various ways, as the following passage (I. ii. 350):—
For well I ween, that on the day when first
We Grecians hitherward our course address'd
To Troy the messengers of blood and death
Th' o'erruling son of Saturn, on our right
His lightning flashing, with auspicious sign
Assur'd us of his favor.