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tifying the camp was then entirely new, and the plan for accom- 

 plifhing it was fingular enough. Nestor advifes to rear, for 

 burning the dead, a common pile on the outfide of the fhips, 

 and upon and round this pile to throw up a hillock, from which 

 a wall and ditch fhould be drawn in front of the camp. The 

 propofal is agreed to, (Iliad, VII. 327 — 343. 434, &c.), the pile 

 is eredled, the mound thrown up, and befide it a rampart con- 

 ftrudled, (Iliad, XII. 29. 255, &c.), which the poet terms a wall, 

 {Ttiy6i and -Trv^ym). (VII. 338. 436. et al.). It had battlements 

 and breaftworks, and was provided with gates, baftions, and tur- 

 rets *. That all this was a very flight piece of work, may be fup- 

 pofed from the fhortnefs of the time in which it was conflrudl- 

 ed. No wonder, then, if, in a fhort time, no trace of it remain- 

 ed. Homer, by an ingenious and highly epic turn, afcribes its 

 annihilation to Neptune and Apollo. (XII. i, &c. 459, &c.). 

 It was, however, the firft attempt we know of to fortify a camp ; 

 and, in fo far, is fuflBciently remarkable to merit fome attention. 

 A few elucidations refpecfling the work of this fortification 

 may be added. That the mound was raifed to the north-eaft, 

 in front of the camp, can fcarcely be doubted. Its pofition 

 muft therefore have been on the left wing, to which it mufl 

 have ferved for a protedlion ; and it may be fuppofed, that Ne- 

 stor, in propofing it, had this very end in view. But, as the 

 river Simois ran on the fame fide, it is not clear what was the po- 

 fition of the mound in relation to the river, and what was the fi- 

 tuation of the left wing, and particularly what was the pofition 

 of the ftiips and of the poft of Ajax with refped to both. In 

 the afTault on the camp, which took place on this wing, no 

 mention is made either of the river or the mound. We on- 

 ly fee that the rampart muft have been conftrucfted at a confi- 

 derable diftance before the fliips ; for here, between the fhips 



and 



• Z.nxa\ TTjcCASTfj. (XII. ^i^y Compare Ltcophron, 191. and the Schfl- 

 liaft. 



