Footnotes for Book XIII: 
1.  We are hurried through this book by the warlike ardor of the poet. 
   Battle succeeds battle with animating rapidity.  The speeches are in
   fine keeping with the scenes, and the similes are drawn from the
   most imposing natural phenomena.  The descriptions possess a
   wonderful distinctness and vigor, presenting the images to the mind
   by a few bold and grand lines, thus shunning the confusion of
   intricate and minute detail.—­FELTON.

2.  So called from their simple diet, consisting principally of mare’s
   milk.  They were a people living on the north-east coast of the
   Euxine Sea.  These epithets are sometimes supposed to be the
   gentile denominations of the different tribes; but they are all
   susceptible of interpretation as epithets applied to the
   Hippemolgi.—­FELTON.

3. [For this admirable line the translator is indebted to Mr.
   Fuseli.]—­TR.

4.  The following simile is considered by critics as one of the finest
   in Homer.

5. [A fitter occasion to remark on this singular mode of approach in
   battle, will present itself hereafter.]—­TR.

6. [The bodies of Imbrius and Amphimachus.]

7. [Amphimachus.]

8.  This is a noble passage.  The difference between the conduct of the
   brave man and that of the coward is drawn with great vigor and
   beauty.—­FELTON.

9. [Hypsenor.]

10. [This seems to be he meaning of {en megaro} an expression similar
   to that of Demosthenes in a parallel case—­{eti endon ousan}.—­See
   Schaufelburgerus.]—­TR.

11. [He is said to have been jealous of him on account of his great
   popularity, and to have discountenanced him, fearing a conspiracy
   in his favor to the prejudice of his own family.—­See
   Villoisson.]—­TR.

12. [The Iaeonianans were a distinct people from the Ionians, and
   according to the Scholium, separated from them by a pillar bearing
   on opposite sides the name of each.—­See Barnes.  See also
   Villoisson.]—­TR.

13. [The people of Achilles were properly called the Phthiotae, whereas
   the Phthians belonged to Protesilaeus and Philoctetes.—­See
   Eustathius, as quoted by Clarke.]—­TR.

14.  This simile is derived from one of the most familiar sights among
   a simple people.  It is extremely natural, and its propriety will be
   peculiarly striking to those who have had occasion to see a yoke of
  oxen plowing in a hot day.—­FELTON.

15. [Achilles.]

16. [This, according to Eustathius, is the import of {amoiboi}.—­See
   Iliad III., in which Priam relates an expedition of his into that
   country.]—­TR.

Footnotes for Book XIV: 
1.  The beauty of this simile will be lost to those who have never been
   at sea during a calm.  The water is then not quite motionless, but
   swells gently in smooth waves, which fluctuate in a balancing
   motion, until a rising wind gives them a certain determination. 
   Every circumstance of the comparison is just, as well as beautiful.