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by tliefe lliips of Ulysses, and confequently behind the fore- 

 moft row, was the place for holding the public alTemblies, and 

 for the altars for the facrifices. (Iliad, XI. 806-7.). One of thefe, 

 it fhould feem, was the altar of Jupiter Panomphasus *. 



The order of the fhips in the catalogue, (Iliad, II.), appears 

 to have fome connection with this arrangement in the camp, fo 

 that the Boeotians, and thofe after them, as far on as the Sala- 

 minians, under AjAX, belonged to the left wing. The Argives, 

 and thofe next in order, as far as th^ Cretans, Rhodians, and 

 other Iflanders, compofed the centre. The Theffalians, with the 

 Myrmidons, formed the right wing. 



The fucceffion and order of the troops, when afterwards 

 drawn up in the field of battle, is fomewhat different. Aga- 

 memnon runs through the midfl of the battle ; and after pafP- 

 ing fome, who are not named, he comes to IdomeI'IEUs with 

 the Cretans, to Ajax and the Salaminians, to Nestor with his 

 I'ylians-, to the Athenians under Menestheus, to Ulysses, and 

 laftly to DiOMEDE ■\. 



Agamemnon, it appears^ went from the left to the right 

 wing. Ulysses was at fuch a diflance from the fpot where the 

 Trojans were prefling on to the affault, that he as yet knew no- 

 thing of their approach. (IV. 331.). In the battle itfelf all or- 

 der 



* Iliad, VIII. 249. 250. Ovid. Met. XI. 197. Apollo ftands on the Trojan 

 ihore, 



bextera Siget, Rhcctet lava profundi 

 , Ara Panomphao vetus eji facrata Tonanti. 



What notion the editors have had of this paflage, it is not eafy to divine. At all 

 events, a point mxift be put after profundi, and that line mull be underftood as a com- 

 plete fentence. 



f Iliad, IV. 231, &c. The leaders and the corps are by no means all particu- 

 larifed by name. Thus, it appears from lib. XI. 808. IL 736. that the Theffa- 

 lians, commanded by Eurypylus, were thefe. 



