He sought in pray'r the daughter dread of Jove, And, brandishing it, hurl'd his lance; it struck 610 Eupithes, pierced his helmet brazen-cheek'd That stay'd it not, but forth it sprang beyond, And with loud clangor of his arms he fell. Then flew Ulysses and his noble son With faulchion and with spear of double edge To the assault, and of them all had left None living, none had to his home return'd, But that Jove's virgin daughter with a voice Of loud authority thus quell'd them all. Peace, O ye men of Ithaca! while yet 620 The field remains undeluged with your blood. So she, and fear at once paled ev'ry cheek. All trembled at the voice divine; their arms Escaping from the grasp fell to the earth, And, covetous of longer life, each fled Back to the city. Then Ulysses sent His voice abroad, and with an eagle's force Sprang on the people; but Saturnian Jove, Cast down, incontinent, his smouldring bolt At Pallas' feet, and thus the Goddess spake. 630 Laertes' noble son, for wiles renown'd! Forbear; abstain from slaughter; lest thyself Incur the anger of high thund'ring Jove. So Pallas, whom Ulysses, glad, obey'd. Then faithful covenants of peace between Both sides ensued, ratified in the sight Of Pallas progeny of Jove, who seem'd, In voice and form, the Mentor known to all. FOOTNOTES: [111] Τρίζουσαι--τετριγῦιαι--the ghosts Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. SHAKSPEARE. [112] --Behemoth, biggest born of earth, Upheav'd his vastness. MILTON. [113] The fruit is here used for the tree that bore it, as it is in the Greek; the Latins used the same mode of expression, neither is it uncommon in our own language. [114] Τίς νύ μοι ἡμέρη ἥδε;--So Cicero, who seems to translate it--Proh dii immortales! Quis hic illuxit dies! See Clarke in loco. END OF THE ODYSSEY NOTES NOTE I. Bk. x. l. 101-106 (Hom. x. l. 81-86).--It is held now that this passage should be explained by the supposition that the Homeric bards had heard tales of northern latitudes, where, in summer-time, the darkness was so short that evening was followed almost at once by morning. Thus the herdsman coming home in the twilight at one day's close might meet and hail the shepherd who was starting betimes for the next day's work. Line 86 in the Greek ought probably to be translated, "For the paths of night and day are close together," _i.e._, the entrance of day follows hard on the entrance of night. NOTE II. Bk. xi. l. 162, 163 (Hom. xi. l. 134, 135).-- θάνατος δέ τοι ἐξ ἁλὸς αὐτῷ ἀβληχρὸς μάλα τοῖος ἐλεύσεται.