Footnotes for Book XXII: 
1.  This simile is very striking.  It not only describes the appearance
   of Achilles, but is peculiarly appropriate because the star was
   supposed to be of evil omen, and to bring with it disease and
   destruction.  So Priam beholds Achilles, splendid with the divine
   armor, and the destined slayer of his son.—­FELTON.

2.  The usual cruelties practised in the sacking of towns.  Isaiah
   foretells to Babylon, that her children shall be dashed in pieces
   by the Medes.  David says to the same city, “Happy shall he be that
   taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.”—­Ps.
   cxxxvii. 9.

3.  It was supposed that venomous serpents were accustomed to eat
   poisonous roots and plants before attacking their victims.—­FELTON.

4.  This speech of Hector shows the fluctuation of his mind, with much
   discernment on the part of the poet.  He breaks out, after having
   apparently meditated a return to the city.  But the imagined
   reproaches of Polydamas, and the anticipated scorn of the Trojans
   forbid it.  He soliloquizes upon the possibility of coming to terms
   with Achilles, and offering him large concessions; but the
   character of Achilles precludes all hope of reconciliation.  It is a
   fearful crisis with him, and his mind wavers, as if presentient of
   his approaching doom.—­FELTON.

5. [The repetition follows the original, and the Scholiast is of
   opinion that Homer uses it here that he may express more
   emphatically the length to which such conferences are apt to
   proceed.—­{Dia ten polylogian te analepse echresato}.]—­TR.

6. [It grew near to the tomb of Ilus.]

7.  The Scamander ran down the eastern side of Ida, and at the distance
   of three stadia from Troy, making a subterraneous dip, it passed
   under the walls and rose again in the form of the two fountains
   here described—­from which fountains these rivulets are said to
   have proceeded.

8.  It was the custom of that age to have cisterns by the side of
   rivers and fountains, to which the women, including the wives and
   daughters of kings and princes, resorted to wash their garments.

9.  Sacrifices were offered to the gods upon the hills and mountains,
   or, in the language of scripture, upon the high places, for the
   people believed that the gods inhabited such eminences.

10. [The numbers in the original are so constructed as to express the
   painful struggle that characterizes such a dream.]—­TR.

11. [{proprokylindomenos}.]

12.  The whole circumference of ancient Troy is said to have measured
  sixty stadia.  A stadium measured one hundred and twenty-five paces.

13. [The knees of the conqueror were a kind of sanctuary to which the
   vanquished fled for refuge.]—­TR.