Note 42 — BOOK IV.
Charles Duke Yonge translation
I doubt if the wit of these parodies will be appreciated by the modern reader. The lines of Homer, which they are intended to parody, are:—
Ὦ μάκαρ Ατρεΐδη, μοιρηγενὲς, ὀλβιοδαίμων.—Il. 3, 182.
ἠέ συ Πηλεΐδη, πάντων ἐκπαγλότατ’ ἀνδρῶν.—Il. v. 146.
The first of which is translated by Pope:—
Oh, blest Atrides, born of prosperous fate, Successful monarch of a mighty state!
The Greek parody in the text is:—
Ὦ πέπον Ἀρχύτα, ψαλληγενὲς, ὀλβιότυφε Τῆς ὑπάτης ἔριδος πάντων ἐμπειρότατ’ ἀνδρῶν.