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The expedia of Heraldry (article Quartering), al- pression alluded to in support of this though he doubts whether that work can opinion is ίππων επεβήσατο (Iliad, K. be considered a legitimate authority : 514.) Now, I think this can hardly be “ Where a lady becomes an heiress, or understood to mean that Diomedes rode coheiress, to her mother (which cannot be on horseback ; for, Ist, ittwv éteBroato unless the mother was herself an heiress, and in twv átroßávtes are often used to or coheiress,) and not to her father, which signify the act of mounting or dismount. sometimes happens, by the father marry. ing from a chariot : for instance, I', 265; ing a second wife, and having male issue 2ndly, the word in twy, being plural, to represent him, she is entitled to her would cause us to infer that Diomedes rode mother's inheritance, and bears a maternal the two horses ; 3rdly, Ulysses is reprecoat, with the arms of her father on a sented as beating the horses with his bow, canton, taking all the quarterings which and again, in verse 527, it is said that her mother, by descent, was entitled to; and when married, her husband bears the What I was Diomedes such an infant as 'Οδυσεύς μεν έρύξε... ωκέας ίππους. whole on an escotcheon of pretence, and not to be able to beat or restrain his horse the issue of such marriage, after her death, take them as quarterings ; for it should Twv én eBioato again occur, and in the when he wished ? In line 529 the words be particularly noted, that neither men marrying heiresses, or coheiresse next line Μάστιξεν δ' ίππους, which cer pectant, nor the issue of such, can bear tainly mean that Diomedes beat the arms in this manner.” T. has searched horses ; but Barnes says, that in one MS. with much attention the works of Gwillim, he found MáoTiger go 'odvoeùs, which Nisbet, and Edmondson for corroboration reading Clarke in a note approves of, aland confirmation of the foregoing rule, though he gives the former in his text, as but is unable to find any notice taken of he says that the repetition of introvs is inelegant. ex |