revenge, enacts prodigies of valour, recovers the victory, slays the enemy's chief, honours his friend with superb funeral rites, and exercises a cruel vengeance on the body of his destroyer; but finally appeased by the tears and prayers of the father of the slain warrior, restores to the old man the corpse of his son, which he buries with due solemnities.'--Coleridge, p. 177, sqq. 41 Vultures: Pope is more accurate than the poet he translates, for Homer writes "a prey to dogs and to _all_ kinds of birds. But all kinds of birds are not carnivorous. 42 --_i.e._ during the whole time of their striving the will of Jove was being gradually accomplished. 43 Compare Milton's "Paradise Lost" i. 6 "Sing, heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Horeb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd." 44 --_Latona's son: i.e._ Apollo. 45 --_King of men:_ Agamemnon. 46 --_Brother kings:_ Menelaus and Agamemnon. 47 --_Smintheus_ an epithet taken from sminthos, the Phrygian name for a _mouse,_ was applied to Apollo for having put an end to a plague of mice which had harassed that territory. Strabo, however, says, that when the Teucri were migrating from Crete, they were told by an oracle to settle in that place, where they should not be attacked by the original inhabitants of the land, and that, having halted for the night, a number of field-mice came and gnawed away the leathern straps of their baggage, and thongs of their armour. In fulfilment of the oracle, they settled on the spot, and raised a temple to Sminthean Apollo. Grote, "History of Greece," i. p. 68, remarks that the "worship of Sminthean Apollo, in various parts of the Troad and its neighboring territory, dates before the earliest period of Aeolian colonization." 48 --_Cilla,_ a town of Troas near Thebe, so called from Cillus, a siste