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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ...definite than are found in connection with the Trojans themselves; and they are derived in the poem from a period of remote tradition in the story of Bellerophon, while a barbaric colour is given to the nation by such names as Maris, Amisodarus, Atymnius. A peculiarity of costume is once mentioned in connection with the companions of Sarpedon; they are called amitrochitones, wearing chitons unarmed with metal, J which perhaps may still be seen in the blouses of the combatants on the Satrap's Tomb. The accoutrements of the Lycians in the armament of Xerxes, are also barbarous. The character of the Homeric Lycians is particularly honourable, and contrasts with that of the Trojans;--it is really distinguished by a gentle chivalry. Gibbon considered Sarpedon the most amiable of the many amiable heroes of the Iliad; and since my attention to the marbles, I have resigned my former favourite Patroclus to agree with him. The generous reflectiveness of the speech of Sarpedon to Glaucus has ever been admired, and is characteristic by the correspondence of its tone with that of Glaucus to Diomed, and the moderation ascribed, not undeservedly, to Lycian character in later history. Add to these Sarpedon's dignified reproof of Hector, met only by expressive silence, --his reference of the fall of Laomedon to the injustice of his courses;; and finally, the much canvassed exchange of armour proposed by Diomed as a pledge of friendship, and assented to by Glaucus in all unsuspecting frankness and warm-heartedness. The fullest relief is given to this, not by the sacrifice of Diomed, whose conduct is left at least ambiguous, but by the shabby observation of the poet, probably volunteered for that end, that Zeus took away the senses of Glaucus, ...