Note 231 — Chapter XVII
L. Dora Schmitz translation
Compare Homer’s picture of the marshalling of the Greek forces: Iliad, II. 467-8:—
Ἔσταν δ’ ἐν λειμῶνι Σcαμανδρίῳ ἀνθεμόεντι Μυρίοι, ὅσσα τε φύλλα καὶ ἄνθεα γίγνεται ὥρῃ. “Upon Scamander’s flowery mead they stood Unnumbered as the vernal leaves and flowers.”—[Ed.]