92 I'ABLEAU de la PLAINE de TROTE. 



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

 followed Menestheus, with the Athenians ; next to him was 

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

 neans, and Lacedaemonians ; after thefe came feveral other 

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

 with whom, it fhould feem, the other ThefTahan 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 poll of Ajax is all along the moft important. To- 

 wards this wing the main alFault upon the camp takes place* 

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

 wounded Machaon into his. own tent, Achilles is at fuch a 

 diflance that he fees only his back, and "cannot diftindlly 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 fhips of Ulysses are lying. (XI. 805.). 

 Juft 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 ftationed. Machaon, though a Thefl"alian, was con- 

 ducfted by Nestor into bis tent, probably becaufe 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 fhout, 

 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. XXiV. 82. alfo Iliad, VII. 86. XII. 30. XV. 233. 

 XXIII. 2.). And hence muft be derived the explanation of the epithets 5r^<«Tij 

 and uiT-t^m, 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 j 

 lib. VIII. 222. et feq. 



