arose the value of a loud voice in a commander; Stentor was an indispensable officer... In the early Saracen campaigns frequent mention is made of the service rendered by men of uncommonly strong voices; the battle of Honain was restored by the shouts and menaces of Abbas, the uncle of Mohammed," &c.--Coleridge, p. 213. 159 "Long had the wav'ring god the war delay'd, While Greece and Troy alternate own'd his aid." Merrick's "Tryphiodorus," vi. 761, sq. 160 --_Paeon_ seems to have been to the gods, what Podaleirius and Machaon were to the Grecian heroes. 161 --_Arisbe,_ a colony of the Mitylenaeans in Troas. 162 --_Pedasus,_ a town near Pylos. 163 --_Rich heaps of brass._ "The halls of Alkinous and Menelaus glitter with gold, copper, and electrum; while large stocks of yet unemployed metal--gold, copper, and iron are stored up in the treasure-chamber of Odysseus and other chiefs. Coined money is unknown in the Homeric age--the trade carried on being one of barter. In reference also to the metals, it deserves to be remarked, that the Homeric descriptions universally suppose copper, and not iron, to be employed for arms, both offensive and defensive. By what process the copper was tempered and hardened, so as to serve the purpose of the warrior, we do not know; but the use of iron for these objects belongs to a later age."--Grote, vol. ii. p. 142. 164 --_Oh impotent,_ &c. "In battle, quarter seems never to have been given, except with a view to the ransom of the prisoner. Agamemnon reproaches Menelaus with unmanly softness, when he is on the point of sparing a fallen enemy, and himself puts the suppliant to the sword."--Thirlwall, vol. i. p. 181 165 "The ruthless steel, impatient of delay, Forbade the sire to linger out the day. It struck the bending fat