[456] The sense of ἄριστος in Homer, though emphatic, is not absolute.
[457] Il. iii. 106.
[458] See Il. v. 482.
[459] Il. xii. 319.
[460] Il. vi. 207.
[461] Il. vi. 193.
[462] On the ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν, see Achæis, sect. ix.
[463] xx. 180.
[464] Idyll. xv. 139.
[465] Il. xxiv. 496. vi. 252.