13. [Mortified to see his generosity, after so much kindness shown to
   Priam, still distrusted, and that the impatience of the old king
   threatened to deprive him of all opportunity to do gracefully what
   he could not be expected to do willingly.]—­TR.

14. [To control anger argues a great mind—­and to avoid occasions that
   may betray one into it, argues a still greater.  An observation that
   should suggest itself to us with no little force, when Achilles,
   not remarkable either for patience or meekness, exhorts Priam to
   beware of provoking him; and when having cleansed the body of
   Hector and covered it, he places it himself in the litter, lest his
   father, seeing how indecently he had treated it, should be
   exasperated at the sight, and by some passionate reproach
   exasperate himself also.  For that a person so singularly irascible
   and of a temper harsh as his, should not only be aware of his
   infirmity, but even guard against it with so much precaution,
   evidences a prudence truly wonderful.—­Plutarch.]—­TR.

15. [{’Epikertomeon}.  Clarke renders the word in this place, falso
   metu, ludens, and Eustathius says that Achilles suggested such
   cause of fear to Priam, to excuse his lodging him in an exterior
   part of the tent.  The general import of the Greek word is
   sarcastic, but here it signifies rather—­to intimidate.  See also
   Dacier.]—­TR.

16.  The poet here shows the importance of Achilles in the army. 
   Agamemnon is the general, yet all the chief commanders appeal to
   him for advice, and on his own authority he promises Priam a
   cessation of arms.  Giving his hand to confirm the promise, agrees
   with the custom of the present day.

17.  This lament of Andromache may be compared to her pathetic address
   to Hector in the scene at the Scaean gate.  It forms indeed, a most
   beautiful and eloquent pendant to that.—­FELTON.

18. [This, according to the Scholiast, is a probable sense of
   {prosphatos}.—­He derives it {apo ton neosti pephasmenon ek ges
   phyton}.—­See Villoisson.]—­TR.

19.  Helen is throughout the Iliad a genuine lady, graceful in motion
   and speech, noble in her associations, full of remorse for a fault
   for which higher powers seem responsible, yet grateful and
   affectionate towards those with whom that fault had connected her. 
   I have always thought the following speech in which Helen laments
   Hector and hints at her own invidious and unprotected situation in
   Troy, as almost the sweetest passage in the poem.—­H.N.  COLERIDGE.

20. [{Hos hoi g’amphiepon taphon Hektoros hippodamoio}.]