of illustration as employed in war. Hence arose the value of a loud voice in a commander; Stentor was an indispensable officer... In the early Saracen campaigns frequent mention is made of the service rendered by men of uncommonly strong voices; the battle of Honain was restored by the shouts and menaces of Abbas, the uncle of Mohammed," &c.--Coleridge, p. 213. 159 "Long had the wav'ring god the war delay'd, While Greece and Troy alternate own'd his aid." Merrick's "Tryphiodorus," vi. 761, sq. 160 --_Paeon_ seems to have been to the gods, what Podaleirius and Machaon were to the Grecian heroes. 161 --_Arisbe,_ a colony of the Mitylenaeans in Troas. 162 --_Pedasus,_ a town near Pylos. 163 --_Rich heaps of br****._ "The halls of Alkinous and Menelaus glitter with gold, copper, and electrum; while large stocks of yet unemployed metal--gold, copper, and iron are stored up in