[8] The whole end of this counsel was to persuade his soldiers to explore those parts, which he knew would prove a most unpleasing motion to them: for their fellows’ terrible entertainment with Antiphas, and Polyph. and therefore he prepares the little he hath to say with this long circumstance; implying a necessity of that service, and necessary resolution to add the trial of the event to their other adventures. [9] _Κεδνὸς, cujus animus curas prudentes versat._ [10] Seeing them, he thought of his fellows. [11] The herb Moly, which, with Ulysses’ whole narration, hath in chief an allegorical exposition. Notwithstanding I say with our Spondanus, _Credo in hoc vasto mundi ambitu extare res innumeras mirandæ facultatis: adeo, ut ne quidem ista quæ ad transformanda corpora pertinet, jure è mundo eximi possit, etc._ [12] _Φράσσαντό τε πάντα. Commemorabantque omnia._ Intending all their miseries, escapes, and meetings. [13] _Κλυτὰ ἕθνεα νεκρω̑ν._ Which is expounded _Inclyta examina mortuorum:_ but _κλυτὸς_ is the epithet of Pluto; and by analogy belongs to the dead, _quod ad se omnes advocat._ THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS THE ARGUMENT Ulysees’ way to Hell appears; Where he the grave Tiresias hears; Enquires his own and others’ fates; His mother sees, and th’ after states In which were held by sad decease Heroës, and Heroesses, A number, that at Troy wag’d war; As Ajax that was still at jar With Ithacus, for th’ arms he lost; And with the great Achilles’ ghost. ANOTHER ARGUMENT _Λάνβδα._ Ulysses here Invokes the dead, The lives appear Hereafter led.