The prohibition is forgotten; the friend listens to nothing but his courage; his corpse is brought back to the hero, and the hero's arms become the prize of the conqueror.

Then the hero, given up to the most lively despair, prepares to fight; he receives from a divinity new armour, is reconciled with his general and, thirsting for glory and revenge, enacts prodigies of valour, recovers the victory, slays the enemy's chief, honours his friend with superb funeral rites, and exercises a cruel vengeance on the body of his destroyer; but finally appeased by the tears and prayers of the father of the slain warrior, restores to the old man the corpse of his son, which he buries with due solemnities.'-- Coleridge, p.

177, sqq.
41 Vultures: Pope is more accurate than the poet he translates, for Homer writes "a prey to dogs and to _all_ kinds of birds.

But all kinds of birds are not carnivorous.
42 -- _i.e._ during the whole time of their striving the will of Jove was being gradually accomplished.
43 Compare Milton's "Paradise Lost" i.

6 "Sing, heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Horeb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd." 44 -- _Latona's son: i.e._ Apollo.
45 -- _King of men:_ Agamemnon.
46 -- _Brother kings:_ Menelaus and Agamemnon.
47 -- _Smintheus_ an epithet taken from sminthos, the Phrygian name for a _mouse,_ was applied to Apollo for having put an end to a plague of mice which had harassed that territory.