Note 27 — Chapter V
Reading edition
Vos
, the admirable translator of the Odyss. in German hexameters, well aware that the question here lay not between grammar and licence, puerility of conceit, or dignity of fiction, but between sense and nonsense, without deigning to notice the contest of commentators, has rendered
ουτις
, by "
Niemand
," in the first instance, and afterwards varies it with "
Keiner
."
"Niemand ist mein Name; denn Niemand nennen mich alle. Niemand würgt mich, ihr Freund', arglistig! und Keiner gewaltsam! Wenn dir denn keiner gewalt anthut."—