Part 33

THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH BOOK.

[1] Jupiter called the God of sounds, for the chief sound his thunder.

[2] A simile most lively expressive.

THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS

THE ARGUMENT

A dreadful fight about Patroclus’ corse; Euphorbus slain by Menelaus’ force; Hector in th’ armour of Æacides; Antilochus relating the decease Of slain Patroclus to fair Thetis’ son; The body from the striving Trojans won; Th’ Ajaces making good the after field; Make all the subject that this book doth yield,

ANOTHER ARGUMENT

In Rho the vent’rous hosts maintain A slaught’rous conflict for the slain.