Note 145
[ Gr. ἐς μέσσον.]
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Note 146
[ I correct these proofs abroad and am not within reach of Hesiod, but surely this passage suggests acquaintance with the Works and Ways, though it by no means compels it.]
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[ It would seem as though Eurynome and Euryclea were the same person. See note 156]
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[ It is plain, therefore, that Iris was commonly accepted as the messenger of the gods, though our authoress will never permit her to fetch or carry for any one.]
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[ i.e. the doorway leading from the inner to the outer court.]
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[See note 156]
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[ These, I imagine, must have been in the open part of the inner courtyard, where the maids also stood, and threw the light of their torches into the covered cloister that ran all …
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[ Translation very uncertain; vide Liddell and Scott, under {Greek}]
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[ See photo on opposite page.]
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[ cf. “Il.” ii. 184, and 217, 218. An additional and well-marked feature being wanted to convince Penelope, the writer has taken the hunched shoulders of Thersites (who is mentione…
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[ This is how geese are now fed in Sicily, at any rate in summer, when the grass is all burnt up. I have never seen them grazing.]
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[ Lower down (line 143) Euryclea says it was herself that had thrown the cloak over Ulysses—for the plural should not be taken as implying more than one person. The writer is evide…
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[ See note [156]]
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[ This, I take it, was immediately in front of the main entrance of the inner courtyard into the body of the house.]
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[ This is the only allusion to Sardinia in either “Iliad” or “Odyssey.”]
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[ The normal translation of the Greek word would be “holding back,” “curbing,” “restraining,” but I cannot think that the writer meant this—she must have been using the word in its…
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[ I have vainly tried to realise the construction of the fastening here described.]
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[ See plan of Ulysses’ house in the appendix. It is evident that the open part of the court had no flooring but the natural soil.]
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[ See plan of Ulysses’ house, and note [175].]
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[ i.e. the door that led into the body of the house.]
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[ This was, no doubt, the little table that was set for Ulysses, “Od.” xx. 259. Surely the difficulty of this passage has been overrated. I suppose the iron part of the axe to have…
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[ The reader will note how the spoiling of good food distresses the writer even in such a supreme moment as this.]
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[ Here we have it again. Waste of substance comes first.]
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[ cf. “Il.” iii. 337 and three other places. It is strange that the author of the “Iliad” should find a little horse-hair so alarming. Possibly enough she was merely borrowing a co…
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