7.  The poet is careful to leave no prayer unanswered that has justice
   on its side.  He who prays either kills his enemy, or has signs
   given him that he has been heard.

8. [For this singular line the Translator begs to apologize, by
   pleading the strong desire he felt to produce an English line, if
   possible, somewhat resembling in its effect the famous original
   one.

     {Deine de klange genet argyreoio bioio.}—­TR.]

9.  The plague in the Grecian camp was occasioned perhaps by immoderate
   heats and gross exhalations.  Homer takes occasion from it, to open
   the scene with a beautiful allegory.  He supposes that such
   afflictions are sent from Heaven for the punishment of evil
   actions; and because the sun was the principal agent, he says it
   was sent to punish Agamemnon for despising that god, and injuring
   his priest.

10.  Hippocrates observes two things of plagues; that their cause is in
   the air, and that different animals are differently affected by
   them, according to their nature and nourishment.  This philosophy is
   referred to the plagues here mentioned.  First, the cause is in the
   air by means of the darts or beams of Apollo; second, the mules and
   dogs are said to die sooner than the men, partly from their natural
   quickness of smell, and partly from their feeding so near the earth
   whence the exhalations arise.

11:  Juno, queen of Olympus, sides with the Grecians.  Mr. Coleridge (in
   his disquisition upon the Prometheus of AEschylus, published in his
   Remains) shows very clearly by historical criticism, that Juno, in
   the Grecian religion, expressed the spirit of conservatism.  Without
   going over his argument we assume it here, for Homer always
   attributes to Juno every thing that may be predicated of this
   principle.  She is persistent, obstinate, acts from no idea, but
   often uses a superficial reasoning, and refers to Fate, with which
   she upbraids Jupiter.  Jupiter is the intellectual power or Free
   Will, and by their union, or rather from their antagonism, the
   course of things proceeds with perpetual vicissitude, but with a
   great deal of life.—­E.P.P.

12.  Observe this Grecian priest.  He has no political power, and
   commands little reverence.  In Agamemnon’s treatment of him, as well
   as Chryses, is seen the relation of the religion to the government. 
   It was neither master nor slave.—­E.P.P.

13.  A district of Thessaly forming a part of the larger district of
   Phthiotis.  Phthiotis, according to Strabo, included all the
   southern portion of that country as far as Mount OEta and the
   Maliac Gulf.  To the west it bordered on Dolopia, and on the east
   reached the confines of Magnesia.  Homer comprised within this
   extent of territory the districts of Phthia and Hellas properly so
   called, and, generally speaking, the dominions of Achilles,
   together with those of Protesilaus and Eurypylus.