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to his father if he learns his death.^[1] Menelaus erects in Egypt a cenotaph to Agamemnon.^[2] So Virgil tells us that Andromache, who had married Helenus and become. queen of Chaonia, had erected in the shade of a sacred grove, on the bank of another Simois, a cenotaph in honour of Hector.^[3]

§ III. Tumulus of Antilochus.—In spite of all my endeavours, I have not been able to persuade the proprietor of the third tumulus, which is crowned by the large massive windmill, to permit me, for an indemnity of £3, to sink a shaft within the building or to run in a tunnel at the foot of the hillock; for he apprehends that, by this operation, the heavy walls of the mill might fall in. I could only obtain from him permission to dig with the pickaxe small holes in the slope of the tumulus. In these holes I gathered many fragments of the very same archaic pottery which I had found in the tumuli of Achilles and Patroclus. All that remains, therefore, to be done, is to put on record the re-discovery of this tumulus which was so well known in antiquity,^[4] and to insert it on the map of the Troad as the Tumulus of Antilochus, in