[1] _ϒπνῳ καἱ καμἀτῳ ἁρημένος. Sonno et labore afflictus._ Sleep
(_καταχρηστικω̑ς_) for the want of sleep.
[2] Intending Dymas’ daughter.
[3] This familiar and near wanton carriage of Nausicaa to her father,
joined with that virgin modesty expressed in her after, is much
praised by the gravest of Homer’s expositors; with her father’s loving
allowance of it, knowing her shamefastness and judgment would not let
her exceed at any part. Which note is here inserted, not as if this
were more worthy the observation than other every-where strewed
flowers of precept, but because this more generally pleasing subject
may perhaps find more fitness for the stay of most readers.
[4] The piety and wisdom of the Poet was such, that (agreeing with the
Sacred Letter) not the least of things he makes come to pass _sine
Numinis providentiâ._ As Spondanus well notes of him.
[5] _Διερὸς βροτός. Cui vitalis vel sensualis humiditas inest. βροτὸς
ὰ ῥέω, ut dicatur quasi ῥοτὸς,_ i.e. _ὁ ἐν ῥοᾓ ὢν, quod nihil sit
magis fluxum quam homo._
[6] _Ανήρ virili animo præditus, fortis, magnanimus._ Nor are those
affirmed to be men, _qui servile quidpiam et abjectum faciunt, vel,
facere sustinent_: according to this of Herodotus in Polym. _πολλοὶ
μὲν ἄνθρωποι ει͒εν, ὀλίγοι δὲ ἄνδρες._ Many men’s forms sustain, but
few are men.
[7] According to another translator: _“Ab Jove nam supplex pauper
procedit et hospes, Res brevis, at chara est, magni quoque munaris
instar.”_ Which I cite to show his good when he keeps him to the
original, and near in any degree expounds it.
[8] He taught their youths modesty by his aged judgment. As receiving
the custom of maids then used to that entertainment of men,
notwithstanding the modesty of that age, could not be corrupted
inwardly for those outward kind observations of guests and strangers,
and was therefore privileged. It is easy to avoid show; and those,
that most curiously avoid the outward construction, are ever most
tainted with the inward corruption.
[9] The city’s description so far forth as may in part induce her
promised reason why she took not Ulysses to coach with her.
[10] Not without some little note of our omnisufficient Homer’s
general touch of the least fitness lying in his way, may this courtly
discretion he describes in Nausicaa be observed, if you please.
[11] More of our Poet’s curious and sweet piety.