104 TJBLEJU de la PLAINE de TROrZ. 



and the rampart, a fevere engagement enfued. (XIII. 136, &c. 

 XIV. 30, &c.)*. 



The mound terminated in the rampart, properly a fence of 

 earth, upon which turrets were ereded, compofed of beams and 

 ftones. (XII. 29.). That the rampaft was low is clear, from 

 the circumftance of Sarpedon's being able to catch hold, with 

 his hand, of the battlements of the bread-work. The fide on 

 which the £hips of AjAX were placed, is defcribed as the lowed. 

 (XIII. 682-3.). What QuiNTUS fays, (VII. 474.), has a refe- 

 rence to this circumdance. 



Through the rampart gates led into the plain f. Among 

 thefe, it fhould f^em, there was one principal gate, at the extre- 

 mity of the left wing of the camp. Through it the Greeks 

 marched out to battle. (XII. 118. Compare XIII. 326.). 



On the outfide of the rampart, towards the plain, a ditch was 

 drawn (VII. 341.) to break the fird onfet of the Trojans. In 

 the ditch palifades were fixed J. 



The fortification feems not to have extended along the whole 

 front of the camp. We do not find, at lead, that it reached to 



the 



* The poet indeed fays, The mound was thrown up in the field, not far before 

 the (hips. ^VII. 334. 433, &c.), tv^^ov um tt^o yiaJw,— rojttSoy «^<pi Trygiv, — I, irihiu matt 

 JVyroV| — -3ri.'gytf; {i-^yi>.v^ eiXosg irtZi t£ kJ ccCtuv, 



The mound mud have been thrown up upon and round the fpot where the burn- 

 ing took, place. Compare XXIII. 255, &c. and V IRGIL, /epu/cf>rum imponit, VI. 

 292. in like manner upon the fpot where the funeral pile had been erefted ; which 

 is precifely what Homer means by a//fi ■rrv^ri: In Quintus of Smyrna we find, in 

 like manner, -xv^xiclfti k^ Ta^^o, (read Tafat). XII. 163, 164. 



+ ni!A«<. (VII. 339, 340. 438.). The Scholiaft on v. 339. feems to be in the 

 right, when he fays, " On the left hand of the fhipllation (vaiJirraOfcos) was a large 

 " gate, befides which feveral other gates were conftrufted." 



t VII. 441. XII. 54. 63, &c. Between the ditch and the wall no intermediate 

 fpace was left, as may be inferred from VIII. a, 3.; nJipjss wu^ya muft be united. 



