Note 5 — Early Poems (continued 2)

Possibly suggested by Homer’s expression, ἀνὰ πτολέμοιο γεφύρας, Il., viii., 549, and elsewhere; but Homer’s and Tennyson’s meaning can hardly be the same. In Homer the “bridges of war” seem to mean the spaces between the lines of tents in a bivouac: in Tennyson the meaning is probably the obvious one.