[767] Il. x. 256.
[768] xv. 712–12.
[769] Iliad. xxiii. 824.
[770] Sanskritists hold it to have been originally ἄσορ, and to derive from असि (asi), a Sword; whence आसिक (ásik), a swordsman (Fick, Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Grundsprache). It is probably connected with ἀείρω, because ‘carried’ on the shoulder by the bauldric.
[771] Od. xi. 24.
[772] Il. xvi. 115.
[773] xvi. 473.
[774] Il. xiv. 385.
[775] In his illustrations of the Iliad, Flaxman rarely arms his warriors with the Sword, even at the Fight for the Body of Patroclus. It is to be hoped that artists in future will kindly take warning.
[776] Il. xv. 256; also Hymn to Apollo, 396.