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The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems

Note 1 — THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS

George Chapman translation

’Αΐδηλον ὅμιλον, ἀΐδηλος of ἀΐδης, orcus, and signifies properly tenebricosus, or infernalis, so that perniciosus (which is the Latin translation) is not so fit as damned for that crew of dissolute Wooers. The phrase being now used to all so licentious.

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