BOOK X XXII. The Greek means, "paltry breath bearing up corpses, so that

the tale of Dead Man's Land is clearer." XXII. "The poet" (21): Euripides, frag. 898 (Nauck); compare Aeschylus, Danaides, frag. 44. XXIV. "Plato" (23): Theaetetus, p. 174 D. XXXIV. "The poet" (34): Homer, Iliad, vi. 147. XXXIV. "Wood": A translation of ulh, "matter." XXXVIII. "Rhetoric" (38): Rather "the gift of speech"; or perhaps the "decree" of the reasoning faculty.