[489] Fig. v. in Map.
[490] Od. i. 170, et alibi.
[491] I am not prepared to contend that the numbers of the ships are to be taken as literally correct: but this subject will be discussed in conjunction with his general mode of using number, in the ‘Studies on Poetry,’ sect. iii.
[492] Od. ii. 386.
[493] The reasons for treating this as a coincidence will be found in a paper on Homer’s use of number. (Studies on Poetry, sect. iii.)
[494] Herod. vii. 161.
[495] Il. x. 434.
[496] Od. xi. 521.
[497] Lit. Greece, i. 39, note.
[498] Il. x. 267.