Part 20

FINIS LIBRI UNDECIMI HOM. ODYSS.

[1] They mourned the event before they knew it.

[2] _Misenus apud Virgilium, ingenti mole, etc._

[3] Men that never eat salt with their food.

[4] _Γήπᾳ ὑπὸ λιπαρῳ̑._ Which all translate _senectute sub molli._ The epithet _λιπαρῳ̑;_ not of _λιπαρὸς,_ viz, _pinguis,_ or _λιπαρω̑ς, pinguiter,_ but _λιπαρω̑ς_ signifying _flagitanter orando._ To which pious age is ever altogether addicted.

[5] Amphiaraus was her husband, whom she betrayed to his ruin at Thebes, for gold taken of Adrastus her brother.

[6] _Venustè et salsè dictum._

[7] This advice he followed at his coming home.

[8] This place (and a number more) is most miserably mistaken by all translators and commentors.

[9] The horse abovesaid.

[10] Ajax the son of Telamon.

THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS

THE ARGUMENT

He shows from Hell his safe retreat To th’ isle Ææa, Circe’s seat; And how he ’scap’d the Sirens’ calls, With th’ erring rocks, and waters’ falls, That Scylla and Charybdis break; The Sun’ s stol’ n herds; and his sad wreak Both of Ulysses’ ship and men, His own head ’scaping scarce the pain.

ANOTHER ARGUMENT

_Μυ̑_ The rocks that err’d, The Sirens’ call. The Sun’s stol’n herd. The soldiers’ fall.