[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.