[19] One of the finest pieces of sculpture in Italy, the recumbent Ariadne of the Vatican, represents this incident. A copy is owned by the Athenæum, Boston, and deposited in the Museum of Fine Arts.
[20] Proteus.
[21] The story of the invulnerability of Achilles is not found in Homer, and is inconsistent with his account. For how could Achilles require the aid of celestial armor if he were invulnerable?
[22] Tennyson has chosen Œnone as the subject of a short poem; but he has omitted the most poetical part of the story, the return of Paris wounded, her cruelty and subsequent repentance.
[23] [See Proverbial Expressions.]
[24] Pyrrhus’s exclamation, “Not such aid nor such defenders does the time require,” has become proverbial. [See Proverbial Expressions.]
[25] Tennyson in the “Lotus-eaters” has charmingly expressed the dreamy, languid feeling which the lotus food is said to have produced.
“How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream
With half-shut eyes ever to seem
Falling asleep in a half dream!