178. _Telamon_ was not at the siege, and his name appears here and in l. 150 as the result of a tangle which begins in the confusion of Oyleus Ajax with Ajax the son of Telamon. In classical writers after Homer it is Oyleus Ajax who, at the sack of Troy, drags Cassandra from the temple of Minerva. This is the story in Dictys. Dares, like Homer, is silent. In Benoît de Sainte-Maure's poem (ll. 26211-16), the best MSS. name Oyleus Ajax as Cassandra's captor, but others have '_Thelamon Aiax_', i.e. Ajax, the son of Telamon. Guido read Benoît in a MS. of the latter class, and accordingly makes _Telamonius Aiax_ do the sacrilege. With the English translator this becomes _Telamon_ simply (Bk. xxix, ll. 11993-7). So when later, in Bk. xxxi, he comes to describe the shipwreck, he replaces Guido's _Aiax_ by _Telamon_, and spoils the story of Minerva's vengeance on the actual violator of her sanctuary. VIII #Dialect#: South Midland, with mixture of forms. _a._ VERB: pres. ind. 2 sg. _seist_ 226, _wilnest_ 256. 3 sg. _comaundeth_ 16. 1 pl. _haue_ 118, _preye_ 119. 2 pl. _han_ 11, _wasten_ 127. 3 pl. _liggeth_ 15, &c.; beside _ben_ 50, _waste_ 155. imper. pl. _spynneth_ 13. pres. p. (none in _a_); _romynge_ _b_ 11. strong pp. _bake_ 187, _ybake_ 278, _ybaken_ 175. Infinitives in _-ie_ (OE. _-ian_) are retained: _erye_ 4, _hatie_ 52, _tilye_ 229 (OE. _erian_, _hatian_, _tilian_). PRONOUN 3 PERS.: pl. nom. _þei_ 126, &c., beside _hii_ 15; poss. _her_ 54; obj. _hem_ 2. #Sounds#: OE. _y_ often shows the Western development, as in _huyre(d)_ 108, 133, &c.; _abugge_ 75, 159; beside _bigge_ 275. So _Cornehulle_ _b_ 1. But such forms were not uncommon in the London dialect of the time. _b._ The second extract has a more Southern dialectal colouring. Note especially the gen. pl. forms _lollarene_ 31, _knauene_ 56, _lordene_ 77, continuing or extending the OE. weak gen. pl. in _-ena_; and _menne_ 29, 74, retaining the ending of the OE. gen. pl. _manna_. The representation of unaccented vowels by _u_ in _hure_ (= 'their') 50, (= 'her') 53; _(h)us_ 'his' 60, 101; _clerkus_ 65, is commonest in Western districts. _h(w)_ is no longer aspirated: _wanne_ 1, _werby_ 35, MS. _eggen_ 19; and conversely _hyf_ 'if' 43, _his_ 'is' 105. * * * * * _a_ 9. _for shedyng_, 'to prevent spilling'; and so _for colde_ 62 'as a protection against cold'; _for bollyng_ 209 'to prevent swelling'; _for chillyng_ 306, &c.