Strabo, however, says, that when the Teucri were migrating from Crete, they were told by an oracle to settle in that place, where they should not be attacked by the original inhabitants of the land, and that, having halted for the night, a number of field-mice came and gnawed away the leathern straps of their baggage, and thongs of their armour.

In fulfilment of the oracle, they settled on the spot, and raised a temple to Sminthean Apollo.

Grote, "History of Greece," i.p.68, remarks that the "worship of Sminthean Apollo, in various parts of the Troad and its neighboring territory, dates before the earliest period of Aeolian colonization." 48 -- _Cilla,_ a town of Troas near Thebe, so called from Cillus, a sister of Hippodamia, slain by OEnomaus.
49 A mistake.

It should be, "If e'er I _roofed_ thy graceful fane," for the custom of decorating temples with garlands was of later date.
50 -- _Bent was his bow_ "The Apollo of Homer, it must be borne in mind, is a different character from the deity of the same name in the later classical pantheon.

Throughout both poems, all deaths from unforeseen or invisible causes, the ravages of pestilence, the fate of the young child or promising adult, cut off in the germ of infancy or flower of youth, of the old man dropping peacefully into the grave, or of the reckless sinner suddenly checked in his career of crime, are ascribed to the arrows of Apollo or Diana.