[1] _Εἰνοσίϕυλλον, quatientem seu agitantem frondes._
[2] _Quædam quibus corpus alitur et vita sustentatur ὕλη appellantur._
[3] _Amor patriœ._
[4] After night, in the first of the morning.
[5] The ancient custom of calling home the dead.
[6] The description of all these countries have admirable allegories
besides their artly and pleasing relation.
[7] This his relation of Agamemnon, and his glory and theirs for
Troy’s sack, with the piety of suppliants’ receipt, to him that was so
barbarous and impious, must be intended spoken by Ulysses, with
supposition that his hearers would note, still as he spake, how vain
they would show to the Cyclops; who respected little Agamemnon, or
their valiant exploit against Troy, or the Gods themselves. For
otherwise, the serious observation of the words (though good and
grave, if spoken to another) want their intentional sharpness and
life.
[8] Wool of a violet colour.
[9] Ulysses’ continued insolence, no more to repeat what he said to
the Cyclop, than to let his hearers know epithets, and estimation in
the world.
[10] No occasion let pass to Ulysses’ piety in our Poet’s singular wit
and wisdom.