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

[1] _’Αΐδηλον ὅμιλον, ἀΐδηλος of ἀΐδης, orcus,_ and signifies

properly _tenebricosus,_ or _infernalis,_ so that _perniciosus_ (which

is the Latin translation) is not so fit as damned for that crew of

dissolute Wooers. The phrase being now used to all so licentious.

[2] Intending his father, whose return though he were far from

knowing, or fully expecting, yet he desired to order all things as he

were present.

[3] Intending to Laertes all that Eumæus would have told.

[4] _ϕπεσὶ ἀγαθῃ̑σιν, bonis mentibus,_ the plural number used ever by

Homer.

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