Note 1 — BOOK VI.
Rowland Smith translation
The allusion is to Achilles disguised in female attire among the daughters of Lycomedes. See Statius, "Achilleis."
"And now being femininely all array'd. With some small aid from scissors, paint, and tweezers, He looked in almost all respects a maid."—Byron.
See Herod. iv. 146, where the Minyeans escape from confinement by a similar device of their wives.