Homer, "Iliad," xvi. 847, 848. Plutarch only quotes the first line. I have added the second for the English reader, as necessary for the sense.

Homer, "Iliad," i. 128, 129.

"Iliad," ix. 328.

"Iliad," xvi. 70, 71.

Homer, "Iliad," xxii. 379. He speaks of Hector.

Homer, "Odyssey," xvi. 187.

Homer, "Iliad," xxiii. 673.

Ibid. 670.

Homer, "Odyssey," xii. 192-194.

Ibid. ix. 228, 229.

Fragments from the "Philoctetes" of Euripides.

Homer, "Iliad," i. 260, 261.