Note 100 — THE WORKS AND DAYS.
George Chapman translation
With shining ointment.] Ointment always accompanied the bath. Thus Homer describes the bathing of Nausicaa and her maids in the sixth book of the Odyssey:
And laving next and smoothing o’er with oil Their limbs, all seated on the river bank They took repast.
And afterwards of Ulysses:
At his side they spread Mantle and vest; and next the limpid oil Presenting to him in a golden cruse, Exhorted him to bathe. Cowper.