27. [The transition from narrative to dramatic follows the
   original.]—­TR.

28:  [Apollo; frequently by Homer called the King without any
   addition.]—­TR.

29:  Teucer is eminent for his archery, yet he is excelled by Meriones,
   who had not neglected to invoke Apollo the god of archery.

Footnotes for Book XIV: 
1.  This is the first allusion in the Iliad to the Judgment of Paris,
   which gave mortal offence to Minerva and Juno.  On this account it
   has been supposed by some that these lines are spurious, on the
   ground that Homer could not have known the fable, or he would have
   mentioned it earlier in the poem.—­FELTON.

2. [His blessing, if he is properly influenced by it; his curse in its
   consequences if he is deaf to its dictates.]—­TR.

3. [This is the sense preferred by the Scholiast, for it is not true
   that Thetis was always present with Achilles, as is proved by the
   passage immediately ensuing.]—­TR.

4 [The angler’s custom was, in those days, to guard his line above the
   hook from the fishes’ bite, by passing it through a pipe of
   horn.]—­TR.

5. [Jupiter justifies him against Apollo’s charge, affirming him to be
   free from those mental defects which chiefly betray men into sin,
   folly, improvidence, and perverseness.]—­TR.

6. [But, at first, he did fly.  It is therefore spoken, as the
   Scholiast observes, {philostorgos}, and must be understood as the
   language of strong maternal affection.]—­TR.

7. [{koroitypiesin aristoi}.]

8. [Through which the reins were passed.]—­TR.

9. [The yoke being flat at the bottom, and the pole round, there would
   of course be a small aperture between the band and the pole on both
   sides, through which, according to the Scholium in Villoisson, they
   thrust the ends of the tackle lest they should dangle.]—­TR.

10. [The text here is extremely intricate; as it stands now, the sons
   are, first, said to yoke the horses, then Priam and Idaeus are said
   to do it, and in the palace too.  I have therefore adopted an
   alteration suggested by Clarke, who with very little violence to
   the copy, proposes instead of {zeugnysthen} to
   read—­{zonnysthen}.]—­TR.

11. [The words both signify—­sable.]—­TR.

12.  Priam begins not with a display of the treasures he has brought
   for the redemption of Hector’s body, but with a pathetic address to
   the feelings of Achilles.  Homer well knew that neither gold nor
   silver would influence the heart of a young and generous warrior,
   but that persuasion would.  The old king therefore, with a judicious
   abruptness, avails himself of his most powerful plea at once, and
   seizes the sympathy of the hero, before he has time to recollect
   who it is that addresses him.