25.  The Arcadians, being an inland people, were unskilled in
   navigation, for which reason Agamemnon furnished them with
   shipping.

26.  Nireus is nowhere mentioned as a leader but in these lines.  As
   rank and beauty were his only qualifications, he is allowed to sink
   into oblivion.

27.  The mud of the Peneus is of a light color, for which reason Homer
   gives it the epithet of silvery.  The Titaresius, and other small
   streams which are rolled from Olympus and Ossa, are so extremely
   clear, that their waters are distinguished from those of the Peneus
   for a considerable distance from the point of their
   confluence.—­DODWELL.

28.  Dr. Clarke, in his travels, describes this tomb as a conical
   mound; and says that it is the spot of all others for viewing the
   plain of Troy, as it is visible in all parts of Troas.  From its top
   may be traced the course of the Scamander, the whole chain of Ida,
   stretching towards Lectum, the snowy heights of Gargarus, and all
   the shores of Hellespont, near the mouth of the river Sigaeum and
   the other tumuli upon the coast.

29.  A patronymic given to Achilles as descendant of AEacus, father of
   Peleus.

30.  A river of Troas in Asia Minor, the same as the Scamander.

31.  This expression is construed by critics as denoting an unpolished
   dialect, but not a foreign.

Footnotes for Book III: 
1.  The scenes described in this book are exceedingly lifesome.  The
   figures are animating and beautiful, and the mind of the reader is
   borne along with breathless interest over the sonorous
   verse.—­FELTON.

2.  This is a striking simile, from its exactness in two points—­the
   noise and the order.  It has been supposed that the embattling of an
   army was first learned by observing the close order of the flight
   of these birds.  The noise of the Trojans contrasts strongly with
   the silence of the Greeks.  Plutarch remarks upon this distinction
   as a credit to the military discipline of the latter, and Homer
   would seem to have attached some importance to it, as he again
   alludes to the same thing.  Book iv. 510.

3. [Paris, frequently named Alexander in the original.—­TR.]

4.  Not from cowardice, but from a sense of guilt towards Menelaus.  At
   the head of an army he challenges the boldest of the enemy; and
   Hector, at the end of the Sixth Book, confesses that no man could
   reproach him as a coward.  Homer has a fine moral;—­A brave mind,
   however blinded with passion, is sensible of remorse whenever he
   meets the person whom he has injured; and Paris is never made to
   appear cowardly, but when overcome by the consciousness of his
   injustice.

5. [{Lainon esso chitona}.]

6.  In allusion to the Oriental custom of stoning to death for the
   crime of adultery.—­FELTON.