Open'd his broad chamber-valves, and sat On his couch-side: then putting off his vest Of softest texture, placed it in the hands Of the attendant dame discrete, who first Folding it with exactest care, beside His bed suspended it, and, going forth, Drew by its silver ring the portal close, And fasten'd it with bolt and brace secure. There lay Telemachus, on finest wool Reposed, contemplating all night his course Prescribed by Pallas to the Pylian shore.[123] The word "Trojan" was used in Shakespeare's time to mean a boon companion, a jonnock _tyro_, or a plucky fellow, and it is worthy of note that the trusty lads of Homer's time passed, as does the Briton of to-day, their liquor scrupulously from left to right:-- So spake Jove's daughter; they obedient heard. The heralds, then, pour'd water on their hands, And the attendant youths, filling the cups, Served them from left to right.[124] One of the most remarkable marvels of Cretan archæology is the up-to-date drainage system, and that the Tyrrhenians were equally particular is recorded apparently for all time by the Titanic evidence of the still-standing Cloaca Maxima or great main drain of Rome. The word Troy carries inevitable memories of Helen whose beauty was such utter perfection that "the Helen of one's Troy" has become a phrase. The name Helen is philologically allied to Helios the Sun, and is generally interpreted to mean _torch_, _shiner_, or _giver of light_. The Greeks called themselves Hellenes, after Hellen their eponymous divine leader. Oriental nations termed the Hellenes, Iones, and there is little doubt that Helen and Ione were originally synonymous. In Etruria was the city of Hellana, and we shall meet St. Helen in Great Britain, from Helenium, the old name for Land's End, to Great St. Helen's and Little St. Helen's in London. St. Helen, the lone daughter of Old King Cole, the merry old soul, figures in Wales and Cumberland as Elen the Leader of Hosts, whose memory is preserved not only in Elaine the Lily Maid, but also in connection with ancient roadways such as Elen's Road, and Elen's Causeway. These, suggests Squire, "seem to show that the paths on which armies marched were ascribed or dedicated to her".[125] Helen's name was seemingly bestowed not only on our rivers, such as the Elen, Alone, or Alne and Allan Water, but it likewise seems to have become the generic term _lan_ meaning _holy enclosure_, entering into innumerable place-names--London[126] among others--which will be discussed in course. The character in which Helen was esteemed may be judged from the Welsh adjective _alain_, which means "exceeding fair, lovely, bright". Not only in Wales but also in Ireland _Allen_ seems to have been synonymous with beauty, whence the authorities translate the place-name Derryallen to mean _oakwood beautiful_.