12.  Hence it seems, that too great an insight into futurity, or the
   revelation of more than was expedient, was prevented by the
   Furies.—­TROLLOPE.

Footnotes for Book XX: 
1. [This rising ground was five stadia in circumference, and was
   between the river Simois and a village named Ilicon, in which Paris
   is said to have decided between the goddesses.  It was called
   Callicolone, being the most conspicuous ground in the neighborhood
   of the city.—­Villoisson.]—­TR.

2. [Iris is the messenger of the gods on ordinary occasions, Mercury
   on those of importance.  But Themis is now employed, because the
   affair in question is a council, and to assemble and dissolve
   councils is her peculiar Province.  The return of Achilles is made
   as magnificent as possible.  A council in heaven precedes it, and a
   battle of the gods is the consequence.—­Villoisson.]—­TR.

3. [The readiness of Neptune to obey the summons is particularly
   noticed, on account of the resentment he so lately expressed, when
   commanded by Jupiter to quit the battle.—­Villoisson.]—­TR.

4.  The description of the battle of the gods is strikingly grand. 
   Jupiter thunders in the heavens, Neptune shakes the boundless earth
   and the high mountain-tops; Ida rocks on its base, and the city of
   the Trojans and the ships of the Greeks tremble; and Pluto leaps
   from his throne in terror, lest his loathsome dominions should be
   laid open to mortals and immortals.—­FELTON.

5. [The Leleges were a colony of Thessalians, and the first
   inhabitants of the shores of the Hellespont.]—­TR.

6.  Hector was the son of Priam, who descended from Ilus, and AEneas the
   son of Anchises, whose descent was from Assaracus, the brother of
   Ilus.

7.  This dialogue between Achilles and AEneas, when on the point of
   battle, as well as several others of a similar description, have
   been censured as improbable and impossible.  The true explanation is
   to be found in the peculiar character of war in the heroic age.  A
   similar passage has been the subject of remark.—­FELTON.

8. [Some commentators, supposing the golden plate the outermost as the
   most ornamental, have perplexed themselves much with this passage,
   for how, say they, could two folds be pierced and the spear be
   stopped by the gold, if the gold lay on the surface?  But to avoid
   the difficulty, we need only suppose that the gold was inserted
   between the two plates of brass and the two of tin; Vulcan, in this
   particular, having attended less to ornament than to security.

   See the Scholiast in Villoisson, who argues at large in favor of
   this opinion.]—­TR.

9.  Tmolus was a mountain of Lydia, and Hyda a city of the same
   country.  The Gygaean lake was also in Lydia.