[1] _Hac fuit illius sæculi simplicitas: nam vel fraternus quoque amor
tantus fuit, ut libenter hanc redeunti charissimæ sorori operam
præstiterint. Spond._
[2] _Νέες ώκει̑αι ὡσεὶ πτερὸν ἠὲ νόημα, naves veloces veluti penna,
atque cogitatio._
[3] For the more perspicuity of this pedigree, I have here set down
the diagram, as Spondanus hath it. Neptune begat Nausithous of
Peribœa. By Nausithous, Rhexenor, Alcinous, were begot. By Rhexenor,
Arete, the wife of her uncle Alcinous.
[4] The honour of Arete (or virtue) alleg.
[5] Casts so thick a shade—_πυκινός spissus._
[6] The word that bears this long epithet is translated only _dulce:_
which signifies more, _Μελίϕρονα οι͒νον ἐκίρνα Vinum quod melleâ
dulcedine animum perfundit, et oblectat._
[7] Ascent to his country’s shore.
[8] Eustathius will have this comparison of the Phæacians with the
Giants and Cyclops to proceed out of the inveterate virulency of
Antinous to the Cyclops; who were cause (as is before said) of their
remove from their country; and with great endeavour labours the
approbation of it; but (under his peace) from the purpose: for the
sense of the Poet is clear, that the Cyclops and Giants being in part
the issue of the Gods, and yet afterward their defiers, (as Polyp.
hereafter dares profess) Antinous (out of bold and manly reason, even
to the face of one that might have been a God, for the past manly
appearance he made there) would tell him, and the rest in him, that if
they graced those Cyclops with their open appearance, that, though
descended from them, durst yet deny them, they might much more do them
the honour of their open presence that adored them.
[9] _Αἴθοψ οι͒νος, Vinum calefaciendi vim habens._