14. {Kynopa}.

15. {meganaides}.

16 Agamemnon’s anger is that of a lover, and Achilles’ that of a
   warrior.  Agamemnon speaks of Chryseis as a beauty whom he values
   too much to resign.  Achilles treats Briseis as a slave, whom he is
   anxious to preserve in point of honor, and as a testimony of his
   glory.  Hence he mentions her only as “his spoil,” “the reward of
   war,” etc.; accordingly he relinquishes her not in grief for a
   favorite whom he loses, but in sullenness for the injury done
   him.—­DACIER.

17.  Jupiter, in the disguise of an ant, deceived Eurymedusa, the
   daughter of Cleitos.  Her son was for this reason called Myrmidon
   (from {myrmex}, an ant), and was regarded as the ancestor of the
   Myrmidons in Thessaly.—­SMITH.

18.  According to the belief of the ancients, the gods were supposed to
   have a peculiar light in their eyes.  That Homer was not ignorant of
   this opinion appears from his use of it in other places.

19.  Minerva is the goddess of the art of war rather than of war
   itself.  And this fable of her descent is an allegory of Achilles
   restraining his wrath through his consideration of martial law and
   order.  This law in that age, prescribed that a subordinate should
   not draw his sword upon the commander of all, but allowed a liberty
   of speech which appears to us moderns rather out of order.—­E.P.P.

20. [The shield of Jupiter, made by Vulcan, and so called from its
   covering, which was the skin of the goat that suckled him.—­TR.]

21.  Homer magnifies the ambush as the boldest enterprise of war.  They
   went upon those parties with a few only, and generally the most
   daring of the army, and on occasions of the greatest hazard, when
   the exposure was greater than in a regular battle.  Idomeneus, in
   the 13th book, tells Meriones that the greatest courage appears in
   this way of service, each man being in a manner singled out to the
   proof of it.

22.  In the earlier ages of the world, the sceptre of a king was
   nothing more than his walking-staff, and thence had the name of
   sceptre.  Ovid, in speaking of Jupiter, describes him as resting on
   his sceptre.—­SPENCE.

   From the description here given, it would appear to have been a
   young tree cut from the root and stripped of its branches.  It was
   the custom of Kings to swear by their sceptres.

23.  For an account of the contest between the Centaurs and Lapiths
   here referred to, see Grecian and Roman Mythology.

24.  In antiquity, a sacrifice of a hundred oxen, or beasts of the
   same kind; hence sometimes indefinitely, any sacrifice of a large
   number of victims.

25. [The original is here abrupt, and expresses the precipitancy of
   the speaker by a most beautiful aposiopesis.—­TR.]