The Book of the Sword

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

[757] Il. i. 190, it is called a Phásganon.

[758] ii. 45.

[759] Il. xi. 30.

[760] Studs, flat-headed, like rivets, are still let into the iron blade by modern Africans.

[761] iii. 334.

[762] Il. xvi. 130.

[763] xx. 475.

[764] Il. xvi. 335.

[765] xviii. end.

[766] So Aristophanes (Clouds, 1065) alludes to the Sword forged by Hephaistos and presented to Peleus by the gods, as a prize for resisting the temptations of Atalanta.