[721] viii. 14; ix. 41.
[722] xxxv. 12, 43.
[723] E.g. δέσμοι, bands or ties; ἥλοι, studs; περόναι, pins, fibulæ; and κέντρα, points (Il. xviii. 379; xi. 634; Pausanias xi. 16).
[724] iii. 2.
[725] Il. viii. 20. The Assyrian Hadi or Bet Edi, ‘House of Eternity,’ probably Grecised, by an afterthought, to ἀϊδής—invisible. See the earliest ‘Miracle-play,’ the descent of Ishtar into Hadi; Soc. Bib. Archæol. vol. ii. part i. p. 188.
[726] Eur. Ion. 1.
[727] From the copper trumpet comes χαλκεόφωνος, ringing-voiced (Il. v. 785). The Iliad applies the epithet to Stentor (Il. v. 785), and Hesiod (Theog. 311) to Cerberus.
[728] Od. iii. 425.
[729] For instance, Stasinus or Hegesias, author of the Kypria or Cyprian Iliad (Herod. Lib. ii. 117), assigned to the end of the eighth century b.c., when Kypros may have had her ‘Homeric School.’ It was in nine books, of which the argument has been preserved by Proclus in Photius; and it forms a kind of introduction to the Iliad. See Palma’s Cyprus, p. 13. ‘Homer’ is said to mention iron thirty times.
[730] Dr. Evans (Bronze, p. 15) quotes Dr. Beck’s suggestion that the -eros of Sideros is a ‘form of the Aryan ais (conf. æs, æris). In another place (Stone, p. 5), he alludes to the possible connection of Sideros with ἀστὴρ (a meteor), the Latin Sidera, and the English Star.