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tifying the camp was then entirely new, and the plan for accom- 

 plifhing it was lingular enough. Nestor advifes to rear, for 

 burning the dead, a common pile on the outfide of the fliips, 

 and upon and round this pile to throw up a hillock, from which 

 a wall and ditch Ihould be drawn in front of the camp. The 

 propofal is agreed to, (Iliad, VII. 327 — 343. 434, &c.), the pile 

 is eredled, the mound thrown up, and befide it a rampart con- 

 ftrucEled, (Iliad, XII. 29. 255, &c.), which the poet terms a wall, 

 {re7x,os and -^v^yag). (VII. 338. 436. et al.). It had battlements 

 and breaftworks, and was provided with gates, baftions, and tur- 

 rets *. That all this was a very flight piece of work, may be fup- 

 pofed from the fhortnefs of the time in which it was conflru(5l- 

 ed. No wonder, then, if, in a fhort time, no trace of it remain- 

 ed. Homer, by an ingenious and highly epic turn, afcribes its 

 annihilation to Neptune and Apollo, (XII. i, &c. 459, &c.). 

 It was, however, the firft attempt we know of to fortify a camp ; 

 and, in fo far, is fufficiently remarkable to merit fome attjntion. 

 A FEW elucidations refpe(5ling the work of this fortification 

 may be added. That the mound was raifed to the north-eafl, 

 in front of the camp, can fcarcely be doubted. Its pofition 

 mufl therefore have been on the left wing, to which it mufl 

 have ferved for a protection ; and it may be fuppofed, that Ne- 

 stor, in propofing it, had this very end in view. But, as the 

 river Simois ran on the fame fide, it is not clear what was the po- 

 fition of the mound in relation to the river, and what was the fi- 

 tuation of the left wing, and particularly what was the pofition 

 of the fl:iips and of the poll of Ajax with refpe<5l to both. In 

 the aflTault on the camp, which took place on this wing, no 

 mention is made either of the river or the mound. We on- 

 ly fee that the rampart mufl have been conftrudled at a confi- 

 derable diftance before the fiiips ; for here, between the fhips 



and 



* S:5aki TT^cQ^nrti. (XII. i^g-')' Compare Lycophron, 191. and the Scho- 

 liaft. 



