the rim, others for the cone, of the helmet. 178 --_Athenian maid:_ Minerva. 179 --_Celadon,_ a river of Elis. 180 --_Oileus, i.e._ Ajax, the son of Oileus, in contradistinction to Ajax, son of Telamon. 181 --_In the general's helm._ It was customary to put the lots into a helmet, in which they were well shaken up; each man then took his choice. 182 --_God of Thrace._ Mars, or Mavors, according to his Thracian epithet. Hence "Mavortia Moenia." 183 --_Grimly he smiled._ "And death Grinn'd horribly a ghastly smile." --"Paradise Lost," ii. 845. "There Mavors stands Grinning with ghastly feature." --Carey's Dante: Hell, v. 184 "Sete o guerrieri, incomincio Pindoro, Con pari honor di pari ambo possenti, Dunque cessi la pugna, e non sian rotte Le ragioni, e 'l riposo, e de la notte." --Gier. Lib. vi. 51. 185 It was an ancient style of compliment to give a larger portion of food to the conqueror, or person to whom respect was to be shown. See Virg. Ćn. viii. 181. Thus Benjamin was honoured with a "double portion." Gen. xliii. 34. 186 --_Embattled walls._ "Another essential basis of mechanical unity in the poem is the construction of the rampart. This takes place in the seventh book. The reason ascribed for the glaring improbability that the Greeks should have left their camp and fleet unfortified during nine years, in the midst of a hostile country, is a purely poetical one: 'So long as Achilles fought, the terror of his name sufficed to keep every foe at a distance.' The disasters consequent on his secession first led to the necessity of other means of protection. Accordingly, in the battles previous to the eighth book, no allus