Note 947 — SECT. IX. Woman in the Homeric age.

Damm, Liddell and Scott. In Od. iv. 623, Nitzsch considers that ἄλοχοι must mean wives of the δαιτύμονες. In Od. ix. 115, I find no reason for departing from the plain meaning of wives. It would be giving too much credit to the Cyclopes for civilization, were we to suppose that they recognised a distinction between wife and concubine.