Part 23

FINIS LIBRI UNDECIMI HOM. ODYSS.

[1] They mourned the event before they knew it.

[2] _Misenus apud Virgilium, ingenti mole, etc._

[3] Men that never eat salt with their food.

[4] _Γήπᾳ ὑπὸ λιπαρῳ̑._ Which all translate _senectute sub molli._ The epithet _λιπαρῳ̑;_ not of _λιπαρὸς,_ viz, _pinguis,_ or _λιπαρω̑ς, pinguiter,_ but _λιπαρω̑ς_ signifying _flagitanter orando._ To which pious age is ever altogether addicted.

[5] Amphiaraus was her husband, whom she betrayed to his ruin at Thebes, for gold taken of Adrastus her brother.

[6] _Venustè et salsè dictum._

[7] This advice he followed at his coming home.

[8] This place (and a number more) is most miserably mistaken by all translators and commentors.

[9] The horse abovesaid.

[10] Ajax the son of Telamon.

THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ODYSSEYS

THE ARGUMENT

He shows from Hell his safe retreat To th’ isle Ææa, Circe’s seat; And how he ’scap’d the Sirens’ calls, With th’ erring rocks, and waters’ falls, That Scylla and Charybdis break; The Sun’ s stol’ n herds; and his sad wreak Both of Ulysses’ ship and men, His own head ’scaping scarce the pain.

ANOTHER ARGUMENT

_Μυ̑_ The rocks that err’d, The Sirens’ call. The Sun’s stol’n herd. The soldiers’ fall.

“Our ship now past the straits of th’ ocean flood, She plow’d the broad sea’s billows, and made good The isle Ææa, where the palace stands Of th’ early riser with the rosy hands,

## Active Aurora, where she loves to dance,