changing from the narrative to direct discourse. In the narration itself he often uses Apostrophe (I. xx. 2.):
Round thee eager for the fray stood the sons of Greece.
But he makes use of direct narrative and change of persons, as in the following passage (I. ii. 337):—
Like children, Grecian warriors, ye debate
Like babes to whom unknown are feats of arms.
Atrides thou, as is thy wont, maintain
Unchang'd thy counsel; for the stubborn fight
Array the Greeks.
There is another kind of this Apostrophe (I. ii. 344):—
Thou wouldst not know to whom Tydides may join himself,—
instead of "no one can know."
And again (O. ix. 210):—
And a marvellous sweet smell went up from the mixing bowl:
then truly it was no pleasure to refrain.
58. He uses participles in the place of verbs, as in these words (I. viii. 306):—