above Eriphyle is Elpenor, and Odysseus kneeling, holding his sword over a ditch: and Tiresias the prophet is approaching the ditch, and near Tiresias is Anticlea, the mother of Odysseus, sitting on a stone. And Elpenor is wearing the coarse plaited coat usual among sea-faring men. And below Odysseus Theseus and Pirithous are seated on the enchanted rock, Theseus has both his own sword and that of Pirithous, and Pirithous is looking at his like one indignant that swords are useless for their present venture. Panyasis has represented Theseus and Pirithous as not fastened to their seat, but that the rock grew to them instead of fetters. The friendship between Theseus and Pirithous has been alluded to by Homer both in the Iliad and Odyssey. In the latter Odysseus says to the Phæacians, “I then perhaps had seen the heroes of former times, whom I fain would have seen, as Theseus and Pirithous, the famous sons of the gods.”[134] And in the Iliad, in his chiding of Agamemnon and Achilles, Nestor uses the following words:[135] “I never before saw such heroes nor shall I e’er again, as Pirithous, and Dryas shepherd of his people, and Cæneus and Exadius and divine Polyphemus, and Theseus son of Ægeus like to the Immortals.” [131] Odyssey, xi. 23 _sq._ [132] Propertius has an allusion to this, v. iii. 21, 22. [133] It will be seen that I adopt the suggestion of _Siebelis_. The reading is doubtful. [134] Odyssey, xi. 630, 631. The last line is in brackets in modern editions. [135] Iliad, i. 262-265. The last line here is in brackets in modern editions. CHAPTER XXX.