FINIS LIBRI QUARTI HOM. ODYSS.

[1] _Αακεδαἰμονα κητὠσσαν_ which is expounded _Spartam amplam,_ or

_πεγἀλην magnam;_ where _κητὠεσσαν_ signifies properly _plurima cete

nutrientem._

[2] _Μολπης ἐ ἄρχοντες Cantum auspicantes:_ of which place, the

critics affirm that _saltatores motu suo indicant cantori quo genere

cantus saltaturi forent._ The rapture of Eteoneus at sight of

Telemachus and Pisistratus.

[3] Telemachus to Pisistratus, in observation of the house, not so

much that he heartily admired it, as to please Menelaus, who he knew

heard, though he seemed desirous he should not hear.

[4] Helen counterfeited the wives’ voices of those kings of Greece

that were in the wooden horse, and calls their husbands.

[5] _Δἐμας, membrorum structura._

[6] _Παρἁ κληîδος ἱμἀντα. Ιμἀς, affectus curculionis significat quod

longior et gracilior evaserit._

The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems · 第 26 / 163 题