APPENDIX, No. III. 107 



While the battle rages here among the fliips*, Idomeneos, 

 accompanied by Merion^ repairs to the left wingf, and there, 

 with the veflels in his rear, makes head againft the troops of 

 Asius. The divifion commanded by -SIneas muft have join- 

 ed the column of Asius, and the troops of Paris united with 

 thefe two. At leaft, all the three detachments, as well as feveral 

 others after them, muft have formed a jundion to oppofe Ido- 

 MENEUs, in the place mentioned above. (XIII. 490.). 



The Trojans, in the mean time, began to crowd in on all 

 fides round the place where Hector was engaged. By the ad- 

 vice of PoLYDAMAs, (lb. 726. et feq.), Hector calls the chiefs 

 together to a council. He himfelf goes off, (lb. 674. et feq. $. 

 754. et feq.), collets the braveft_of the chiefs, with their batta- 

 lions, and advances with them againft Ajax. (789.). 



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XIII. 312. E» jKswjiri >ijt)iri. 



t Ibid. 326. e«' ajirTiji a-r^uT?. AjAX, as afterwards appears, fought in front 

 of his own {hips. The left wing of the camp, therefore, muft have extended beyond 

 the ftation of Ajax. Compare 679, &c. At that quarter, too, there were fiiips 

 Ijing ; for Idomeneus fought l^^i .rj^ft.^n mn,. (Ibid. m."). 



t A rAss AGE of conCderable difficulty, in refpeft of the topography, occurs here. 

 It IS faid, (XIII. 675.) : '■ Hector knew not yet that, on the left hand of the fliips, 

 " >7,Z, tx aj-j-Tfji, his Trojans were fuffering fo much ; but he ftill kept the place 

 " where he had firft penetrated into the camp, befide the quarter where the fliips 'of 

 " Ajax and Protesilaus were hauled up." (679—682.) The rampart, in front 

 of the fliips, was loweft at this fpot. Here the adion was fliarpeft. (v. 684.). 



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This lad exprefSon embarrafles me. HoW could chariots be of any ufe in the nar- 

 row fpace between the fliips and the rampart ? HomSr fays further : « Here fought 

 " the Bceotians, the Ionian*, (Athenians), the Locrians, the Phthians," not thofe 

 fubjedl to Achilles, but thofe who had come with Protesilaus, out of Phylace 

 m TheflTaly, (II. 695.), but at this time fought under the command of Podarces, 

 (XIII. 693.), " the Epeans." 1 hardly think the ftiips of thefe people lay there, 



but 



