[276] See Vignette to this chapter. [277] See Plan B B. [278] All these are engraved in their actual size. [279] See No. 142, p. 91. [280] See _Iliad_, XXII. 111, ἀσπὶς ὀμφαλόεσσα; comp. 'Troy and its Remains,' p. 324. [281] See _Iliad_, III. 357; VII. 250; and in many other passages. [282] See _Iliad_, XIII. 715; XIV. 428; and in other passages. [283] See for example _Il._ XI. 32:-- ἀν δ᾽ ἕλετ᾽ ἀμφιβρότην, πολυδαίδαλον ἀσπίδα θοῦριν. "Then he took the man-covering, artistically made, powerful shield." See also all the wonders which Hephæstus wrought on the shield of Achilles, _Il._ XVIII. 468-608. [284] See, for example, _Il._ XX. 275, and XVIII. 480. [285] See p. 133. [286] κορυθαίολος ῞Ἑκτωρ. Comp. 'Troy and its Remains,' p. 281. [287] _Il._ XXII. 326. [288] More properly the tree cricket (τέττιξ, Lat. _cicada_, It. _cigaia_, Fr. _cigale_), of which the Athenians wore golden images in their hair, to denote their autochthonic origin. Hence it was probably the common badge of the cognate Achæan and old Ionian races. [289] Herodotus, III. 13, 14. Milton alludes to this legend (_Par. Lost_, Bk. II.):-- "As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course o'er hill or moory dale Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold." [290] _H. N._ VII. 2; XXXIII. 4, 21. [291] _Apud_ Philostrat. _Vit. Apoll. Tyan._ III. 48, p. 134. [292] 'Vasengemälde.'] [293] Like Nos. 262, 264, 265, 266, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 279, 280, 303, 305, 306, and 316. [294] _Iliad_, XVII. 51 and 52:-- αἵματί οἱ δεύοντο κόμαι Χαρίτεσσιν ὁμοῖαι, πλοχμοί θ᾿, οἳ χρυσῷ τε καὶι ἀργύρω ἐσφήκωντο. ] [295] _Il._ XXII. 209-213:-- ἀλλ᾿, ὅτε δὴ τὸ τεταρτον ἐπὶ κρουνοὺς ἀφίκοντο, καὶ τότε δὴ χρύσεια πατὴρ ἐτιταινε τάλαντα· ἐν δ᾿ ἐτίθει δύο κῆρε τανηλεγέεος θανάτοιο, τὴν μὲν ᾿Αχιλλῆος, τὴν δ᾿ ῞Ἑκτορος ἱπποδάμοιο· ἕλκε δὲ μέσσα λαβών· ῥέπε δ᾿ ῞Ἑκτορος αἴσιμον ἦμαρ, ᾤχετο δ᾿ εἰς ᾿Αΐδαο· λίπεν δέ ἑ Φοῖβος ᾿Απόλλων. [296] II. 16, § 6. See the passage fully quoted in Chapter III. p. 59. [297] _Odyss._ XV. 460:-- χρύσεον ὅρμον ἔχων, μετὰ δ᾿ ἠλέκτροισιν ἔερτο. "Bringing a golden necklace set with amber." And XVIII. 296:-- ὅρμον δ᾿ Εὐρυμάχῳ πολυδαίδαλον αὐτίκ' ἔνεικεν χρύσεον, ἠλέκτροισιν ἐερμένον, ἠέλιον ὥς. "He brought immediately to Eurymachus an artistic golden necklace, set with amber like the sun." In both cases the _plural_ agrees exactly with the sense of _amber-beads_ set in a gold mounting. The third passage, _Odyss._ IV. 73-- χρυσοῦ τ᾿ ἠλέκτρου τε καὶ ἀργύρου ἠδ᾿ ἐλέφαντος-- occurs in the description of the palace of Menelaus; and here the _yellow_ gold and _amber_ seem placed in poetic parallelism with the _white_ silver and _ivory_. [298] _Odyss._ VIII. 443-445:--