839
Il. ii. 360.
840
Il. ii. 799.
841
Il. i. 52. ii. 302.
842
See note (#x_35_i58) at the end of the Section.
843
Ibid.
844
The celebrated Hunter noticed that Homer had made Dolon an only son with five sisters, as a proof of the Poet’s sagacity in observation: having himself found, that youths under such circumstances are generally more or less effeminate. I owe this information to one of the most distinguished living members of the profession, which Hunter himself adorned. It was also a favourite remark, I believe, with Mr. Rogers.
845
See Achæis, or Ethnology, p. 383.
846
See Olympus, sect. ii. p. 53. Welcker (Griechische Götterlehre, vi. 63, p. 300) treats the name Ἀθήνη as immediately akin to αἰθὴρ and the idea of light.
847
Eurip. Iph. in Aul. 213-22.
848
Il. xviii. 409. xxiv. 159.
849
See Olympus, sect. ii. p. 157.
850
Hymn. ad Apoll. v. 172.
851
Macbeth ii. 3.
852
Troilus and Cressida, i. 3, sub fin.
853
Tempest, iv. 1. The rainbow is mentioned as of many colours, in Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 5, Winter’s Tale, iv. 3, and King John, iv. 2.
854
Pritchard’s Celtic Nations, p. 219.
855
Vid. Göthe, Geschichte der Farbenlehre, Works, vol. 53, p. 21. (Stuttgart, 1833.)
856
Wilson’s Five Gateways of Knowledge, p. 4.
857
See, for instance, ‘Ancient and Modern Colours, by William Linton.’ London 1852.
858
Hor. Od. I. 13. 2.
859
Virg. Æn. i. 402.
860
Vid. Göthe, Farbenlehre, Works, vol. 53. p. 23.
861
Prantl’s Aristoteles über die Farben, pp. 101, 3.
862
Ibid. pp. 104, 6.
863
Ibid. p. 109. Ar. Metaph. I. 7. 1057 a. 23.