The monument itself (Towneley Sculptures, No.

123) is well known.
37 Coleridge, Classic Poets, p.

276.
38 Preface to her Homer.
39 Hesiod.Opp.et Dier.Lib.

I.vers.155, &c.
40 The following argument of the Iliad, corrected in a few particulars, is translated from Bitaube, and is, perhaps, the neatest summary that has ever been drawn up:--"A hero, injured by his general, and animated with a noble resentment, retires to his tent; and for a season withdraws himself and his troops from the war.

During this interval, victory abandons the army, which for nine years has been occupied in a great enterprise, upon the successful termination of which the honour of their country depends.