The Greeks, the storm abating, sail to Tenedos, where _Philoctetes is bitten by a snake and carried away to howl in Lemnos_. This might be taken from _Iliad_, ii. 718-725. _At Troy on landing, the Greeks lose Protesilaus,_ slain by Hector. Here again the _Iliad_ may supply the fact, not naming Hector. The author of the _Cypria_ has now, we see, filled up his empty nine years by various expedients and delays. He next tells of the embassy to ask for the return of Helen and the stolen property; the embassy he could get from _Iliad_, iii. 204-207: _a subsequent fight at the wall of Troy_ from _Iliad_, vi. 435-439, where it is described briefly by Andromache. At what precise period the Greek commissariat took the form of three girls with fairy gifts, who produced corn, wine, and oil, is uncertain; but the incident was in the _Cypria_, on the authority of Pherecydes.[25] The _Cypria_ says that Aphrodite contrived an interview between Helen and Achilles, Thetis was chaperon, and that Achilles restrained the Greeks, who wished to go home. _That Achilles sacked Lyrnessus and Pedasus, and sent Lykaon captive to Lemnos_, was to be read in the _Iliad_ (xx. 92, xxi. 55 ff.), where also the story of Briseis and Chryseis, given in the _Cypria_, was to be found. But not in the _Iliad_ was Palamedes, with his murder by Odysseus and Diomede, whence, in the _Cypria_, came the will of Zeus to sunder Achilles from the Achaean host.[26] We now perceive how much of his material the Ionian author of the _Cypria_ could obtain from out Homer. We note the marks of non-Achaeanism and lateness, and of Ionian geographical knowledge, in the reference to Tauris; in the Attic Nemesis; in the per-sonifications of moral qualities; in the intended human sacrifice; in the _Märchen_; in the telling of the tale of Theseus and Ariadne; in the hero-worship; and in the introduction of the Nauplian anti--Odyssean Palamedes. The lateness of the poem declares itself also in the naming of the Peloponnesus. The use of very childish _Märchen_ is un-Homeric: Homer uses _Märchen_ to better purpose. (See "Homer and the Saga.") * * * * * Perhaps few who have had the patience to read through this tedious analysis of the vast and wandering metrical pseudo-chronicle, the _Cypria_, with its marks of bad taste, Ionicism, and lateness, will maintain that, in character, it is on a level with our Homer, or is in age contemporary with his society. Weary as is the task, we must in conscience expose the similar lateness and Ionic character of the other Cyclic poems on the Trojan affairs.