THE " ILIAD" AND "ODYSSEY" IN "SOHRAB AND RUSTUM" 79 



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And he ran forward and embraced his knees, 

 And clasp' d his hand within his own, and said. 



Compare //. i : 500 f . : " So she sat before his face and with her left hand 

 clasped his knees." Compare II. 6:253 (=406): ''and she clasped her 

 hand in his, and spake, and called upon his name." 



But Rustum eyed askance the kneeling youth, 

 And turn'd away, and spake to his own soul. 



Compare II. 1 : 148 : " Then eyeing him askance the fleet-footed Achilles 

 addressed him." Compare also II. 22:98: "Then sore troubled he 

 spake to his great heart." 



Pages 75 f. : The scene in which Rustum ponders on the probable 

 result of a reconciliation with Sohrab is in the manner of the episode 

 of Glaucos and Diomedes, II. 6:212 ff. The lines 



— and proffer courteous gifts 

 A belt or sword perhaps, and go his way, 

 and 



— then he and I 

 Changed gifts, and went on equal terms away, 



are echoes of II. 6:218 f.: "They gave each other goodly gifts of friend- 

 ship: Oineus gave a belt bright with purple, and Bellerophon a gold 

 twy-handled cup;" and of II. 6:226 f. : "So let us shun each other's 



spears, even amid the throng But let us make exchange of arms 



between us." 



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So will he speak perhaps, while men applaud. 



Compare II. 3:461: "So said Atreides, and all the Achaeans gave 

 assent." Compare also Ody. 12 : 294, 352. 



Rash boy, men look on Sohrab's face and flee ! 



This recalls Homer's use of <rxeT\io<; } II. 3 =414; Ody. 9 :494; 12 : 21, etc. 



Or else thy bones shall strew this sand, till winds 

 Blanch them, or Oxus with his summer-floods, 

 Oxus in summer wash them all away. 



This is apparently a free imitation of Ody. 1 : 160 f. : "They eat the sub- 



