[1] This Euphorbus was he that, in Ovid, Pythagoras saith he was in
the wars of Troy.
[2] Note the manly and wise discourse of Menelaus with himself seeing
Hector advancing towards him.
[3] An inimitable simile.
[4] In the Greek always this phrase is used, not in the hands, but ἐν
γούνασι κεὶται, _in the knees of the Gods lies_ our help, etc.