The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose

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1

Or, according to the ordinary interpretation of [Greek]: So he touched the chords in prelude to his sweet singing.

2

Tamasia, in the mountainous centre of Cyprus.

3

The [Greek] explains the expression of surprise at the sudden departure of the stranger.

4

Cf. B. xxi. 131. For the use of the 1st pers. pl. like our ROYAL plural, cf. B. xvi.44, Il. vii. 190.

5

Reading [Greek]. v. 1. '[Greek], which must be wrong.

6

A son of sorrow: Tristram.

7

Mr. Evelyn Abbott of Balliol College has suggested to us that [Greek] and [Greek] are here correlatives, and denote respectively the parts of host and of guest. This is sufficiently borne out by the usage of the words elsewhere.

8

Cf. B. xv.50

9

The only name for the Nile in Homer. Cf. Wilkinson, Ancient Egyptians (1878), vol. i. p. 7.

10

It seems very doubtful whether [Greek] can bear this meaning. The reading [Greek], 'smote,' preserved by the Schol. is highly probable.

11

[Greek], from root [Greek], 'ill-grown,' i. e. a weakling, in the literal sense as B. xi.249, xiv.212, or metaphorical, as here and viii. 177.