APPENDIX, No. Iir. loi 



Hector, on this occafion, does not draw off his troops into 

 the city, but makes them pafs the night at the river, in the open 

 air, at fome diftance from the camp*, and orders them to kindle 

 watch-fires. By the advice of Nestor, the Greeks Hkewife fet 

 a watch f . The fame night a deputation is fent by the Greeks 

 to Achilles, and Ulysses and Diomede fet out on a fcouting 

 party. The fituation of the Trojan encampment, at this junc- 

 ture, is accurately delineated. (X. 415. 428.). Hector had af- 

 fembled the chiefs at the tomb of Ilus. The watch-fires, like 

 the foldiers, were fcattered over the field without any order. 

 The troops extended themfelves down to the fea, (probably the 

 right wing of the Trojans pointed on the north towards Rhoe- 

 teum, beyond the Simois), and fome of their pofls reached as 

 far as Thymbra. At the outermoft extremity lay the new ar- 

 rived Thracians and Rhesus. (434.). This muft have been to- 

 wards the fea or the mouth of the Simois, and farther out be- 

 fore the Trojan army towards the Grecian camp ; for Ulysses 

 and Diomede, who furprifed them, went along the flream of 

 the Simois %. The diftance cannot have been great, for they fet 

 off a good while after midnight, and had returned to the camp 

 by day-break. 



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* NoV^i nut uyccym "^erctf^u Ivi ^itm>Tt, (VIII. 49^0* 



What river now could this be? The Scamander is termed hviit^, eddj/ing. The Si- 

 mois, however, was ftill more fo. Yet if the Scamander had its courfe obliquely thro' 

 the plain, it mufl be the river here intended. 



"j" IX. 67. Out at the tomb, A5|«Sa» wap^i ra'^pov ifvKTtiv rn'^io; Iktoj, It is more 

 diftindly faid afterwards, (v. 87.), between the tomb and the wall, Kxi^l ^'urov rdf^ev 

 ^ Tiixioi- Compare 180. 194. 198-. 



% Hence we find mention made of the heron, (Iliad, X. 274.) ; of the tamarifks, 

 (jWfgU*), and of the fedges, (466-7.). Homer does not take notice of their paffing the 

 river. This, however, they mull, have done. 



