Endnotes

1. The nymph by whose guardian serpent Philoctetes was bitten. See l. 1326. ↩

2. Phoenix. ↩

3. According to the tradition that Ovid followed (Met. 13 284) Odysseus rescued the body and arms of Achilles from the fray, ↩

4. Sisyphus, the reputed father of Odysseus, ordered his wife to leave his body unburied and so obtained leave from Pluto to return to earth in order to punish her impiety. ↩

5. For kindling the funeral-pyre of Heracles on Mount Oeta. ↩

6. Lemnos was the island on which Hephaestus fell when hurled from heaven (Il. I 593) and Moschylus on the east coast seems to have been an active volcano in historic times. ↩

7. The omitted lines are:

   Who judged Odysseus of thy father’s arms
   More worthy than the hapless Ajax.

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8. Odysseus to escape service feigned madness but was detected by Palamedes, who laid the infant Telemachus in front of the plough which he was driving with a yoked ox and ass. ↩