Note 169
[ Or perhaps simply “window.” See plan in the appendix.]
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[ i.e. the pavement on which Ulysses was standing.]
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[ The interpretation of lines 126-143 is most dubious, and at best we are in a region of melodrama: cf., however, i. 425, etc. from which it appears that there was a tower in the o…
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[ I presume it was intended that there should be a hook driven into the bearing-post.]
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[ What for?]
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[ Gr: {Greek}. This is not {Greek}.]
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[ From lines 333 and 341 of this book, and lines 145 and 146 of bk. xxi we can locate the approach to the {Greek} with some certainty.]
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[ But in xix. 500-502 Ulysses scolded Euryclea for offering information on this very point, and declared himself quite able to settle it for himself.]
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[ There were a hundred and eight Suitors.]
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[ Lord Grimthorpe, whose understanding does not lend itself to easy imposition, has been good enough to write to me about my conviction that the “Odyssey” was written by a woman, a…
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[ Then they had all been in Ulysses’ service over twenty years; perhaps the twelve guilty ones had been engaged more recently.]
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[ Translation very doubtful—cf. “It.” xxiv. 598.]
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[ But why could she not at once ask to see the scar, of which Euryclea had told her, or why could not Ulysses have shown it to her?]
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[ The people of Ithaca seem to have been as fond of carping as the Phaeacians were in vi. 273, etc.]
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[ See note [156]. Ulysses’s bed room does not appear to have been upstairs, nor yet quite within the house. Is it possible that it was “the domed room” round the outside of which t…
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[ Ulysses bedroom in the mind of the writer is here too apparently down stairs.]
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[ Penelope having been now sufficiently whitewashed, disappears from the poem.]
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[ So practised a washerwoman as our authoress doubtless knew that by this time the web must have become such a wreck that it would have gone to pieces in the wash.] A lady points o…
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[ We must suppose Dolius not yet to know that his son Melanthius had been tortured, mutilated, and left to die by Ulysses’ orders on the preceding day, and that his daughter Melant…
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