92 I'ABLEJU de la PLAINE de TROTE. 



(Iliad, X. 112.); befide him Nestor, with his Pyliaiis ; then 

 followed Menestheus, -with the Athenians ; next to him was 

 Ulysses ; near to whom were flationed the Argives, Myce- 

 neans, and Lacedccmonians ; after thefe came feveral other 

 corps ; and, laftly, on the right wing were the Myrmidons, 

 with whom, it fhould feem, the other Theffahan tribes (the troops 

 of Protesilaus excepted) were united. 



By this arrangement, the following pafTages appear both to 

 be cleared up themfelves, and to throw light on others in their 

 turn. The pofl of Ajax is all along the moft important. To- 

 wards this wing the main aflault upon the camp takes place. 

 To that fide alfo the battles tend. When Nestor condudls the 

 wounded Machaon into hisown tent, Achilles is at fuch a 

 diftance that he fees only his back, and cannot diflindlly recog- 

 nife his perfon, (XI. 596. 610. et feq.). Patroclus, difpatch- 

 ed by Achilles to make inquiry, in returning from Nestor 

 pafTes the place where the fliips of Ulysses are lying. (XI. 805.). 

 Jiift at this fpot he finds Eurypylus, who was coming back 

 from the engagement at the left wing wounded, and was going, 

 it would appear, to the right wing, where probably his ThefTa- 

 lians were flationed. Machaon, though a Theflalian, was con- 

 ducted by Nestor into his tent, probably becavife he was too 

 much exhaufted to be able to reach the right wing. The fhips 

 of Ulysses lay in the centre, fo that, from thence, the Ihout, 

 which called the troops to arms, could be heard on both wings*. 

 To this the form of the camp, which, from its pofition, extend- 

 ed more in depth than in length, probably contributed. Hard 



by 



150. XXIV. 346. Odyff. XXlV. 82. alfo Iliad, VII. 86. XII. 30. XV. 233. 

 XXIII. 2.). And hence muft be derived the explanation of the epithets a-^aTus 

 and u'h i^ut, which do not feem well applied to the proper Hellefpont ; though, in- 

 deed, broad and narrow are relative terms. 



• Iliad, XI. 5. Thefe verfes are likewife inferted, though rather awkwardly 9 

 lib. Vlll. 222. et feq. 



