10 [Such it appears to have been in the sequel.]—­TR.

11. [{Phiale}—­a vessel, as Athenaeus describes it, made for the
   purpose of warming water.  It was formed of brass, and expanded
   somewhat in the shape of a broad leaf.]—­TR.

12.  The poet omits no opportunity of paying honor to Nestor.  His age
   has disabled him from taking an active part in the games, yet,
   Antilochus wins, not by the speed of his horses, but by the wisdom
   of Nestor.

13. [This could not happen unless the felly of the wheel were nearly
   horizontal to the eye of the spectator, in which case the chariot
   must be infallibly overturned.—­There is an obscurity in the
   passage which none of the commentators explain.  The Scholiast, as
   quoted by Clarke, attempts an explanation, but, I think, not
   successfully.]—­TR.

14. [Eumelus.]

15. [Resentful of the attack made on him by Diomede in the fifth
   Book.]

16. [The twin monster or double man called the Molions.  They were sons
   of Actor and Molione, and are said to have had two heads with four
   hands and four feet, and being so formed were invincible both in
   battle and in athletic exercises.  Even Hercules could only slay
   them by stratagem, which he did when he desolated Elis.  See
   Villoisson.]—­TR.

17. [The repetition follows the original.]—­TR.

18. [{parakabbale}.]

19. [With which they bound on the cestus.]—­TR.

20:  [{tetrigei}—­It is a circumstance on which the Scholiast observes
   that it denotes in a wrestler the greatest possible bodily strength
   and firmness of position.—­See Villoisson.]—­TR.

21:  [I have given what seems to me the most probable interpretation,
   and such a one as to any person who has ever witnessed a
   wrestling-match, will, I presume, appear intelligible.]—­TR.

22. [The Sidonians were celebrated not only as the most ingenious
   artists Footnote:  but as great adepts in science, especially in
   astronomy and arithmetical calculation.]—­TR.

23. [King of Lemnos.]

24. [That is to say, Ulysses; who, from the first intending it, had
   run close behind him.]—­TR.

25.  The prodigious weight and size of the quoit is described with the
   simplicity of the orientals, and in the manner of the heroic ages. 
   The poet does not specify the quantity of this enormous piece of
   iron, but the use it will be to the winner.  We see from hence that
   the ancients in the prizes they proposed, had in view not only the
   honorable but the useful; a captive for work, a bull for tillage, a
   quoit for the provision of iron, which in those days was scarce.

26. [The use of this staff was to separate the cattle.  It had a string
   attached to the lower part of it, which the herdsman wound about
   his hand, and by the help of it whirled the staff to a prodigious
   distance.—­Villoisson.]—­TR.