And all the signs in heaven are seene, that glad the shepherd's heart." Chapman. 199 This flight of the Greeks, according to ****mann, Lexil. p. 358, was not a supernatural flight caused by the gods, but "a great and general one, caused by Hector and the Trojans, but with the approval of Jove." 200 Grote, vol. ii. p. 91, after noticing the modest calmness and respect with which Nestor addresses Agamemnon, observes, "The Homeric Council is a purely consultative body, ****embled not with any power of peremptorily arresting mischievous resolves of the king, but solely for his information and guidance." 201 In the heroic times, it is not unfrequent for the king to receive presents to purchase freedom from his wrath, or immunity from his exactions. Such gifts gradually became regular, and formed the income of the German, (Tacit. Ge