Note 243 — Chapter XXI · GRECIAN EPIC.—HOMERIC POEMS.
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Phemius, Demodokus, and the nameless bard who guarded the fidelity of Klytæmnêstra, bear out this position (Odyss. i. 155; iii. 267; viii. 490; xxi. 330; Achilles in Iliad, ix. 190).
A degree of inviolability seems attached to the person of the bard as well as to that of the herald (Odyss. xxii. 355-357).