The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems

Part 35

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THE END OF THE NINETEENTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS.

[1] _Χοὶνικος ἅπτηται,_ they will needs turn this, _quadram_ (for _modium) gustet._ Though the words bear no such signification, but give a proverb then in use repetition, which was: _he shall not join or make a spoke in the nave of my chariot, or chariot-wheel. Χοίνικον,_ or _χοίνικις,_ signifying _modiolus rotæ,_ and _ἅπτω, recto._

[2] Intending with truth itself, not his show only.

[3] Autolycus gives his grandchild Ulysses his name: from whence the Odysseys is derived, _’Οδυσσεύς,_ derived of _ὀδύζομαι, ex ὀδύνη factum;_ signifying _dolorem proprie corporis, nam ira ex dolore oritur._

THE TWENTIETH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS

THE ARGUMENT

Ulysses, in the Wooers’ beds, Resolving first to kill the maids. That sentence giving off, his care For other objects doth prepare.

ANOTHER ARGUMENT

_ψ._ Jove’s thunder chides, But cheers the King, The Wooers’ prides Discomfiting.