Note 495 — Chapter V · THE DEMONOLOGY OF GHOSTS AND SPRITES AND BOGEYS.
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Od. XI. 633
ἐμὲ δὲ χλωρὸν δέος ᾕρει μή μοι γοργείην κεφαλὴν δεινοῖο πελώρου ἐξ Ἀΐδεος πέμψειεν ἀγαυὴ Περσεφόνεια.
I have translated γοργείην ‘grizzly,’ not ‘Gorgon,’ advisedly. Homer does not commit himself to a definite Gorgon. Mr Neil on Aristoph. Eq. 1181 says “Γοργολόφα means merely ‘fierce-plumed.’” The Gorgon was made out of the terror, not the terror out of the Gorgon.