. The Odyssey of Homer, done into English prose by Butcher and A. Lang. o, even if Odysseus had the larger following. We have not ventured to introduce this into the text, as being de-ficient in authority, though it certainly adds point as well as simplicityto the passage. Another suggestion of the Scholiast is to retain the MSS. reading in251, and regard nXfoveaci in each case as equivalent to avv ir\c6v(afft,* fight with more men on your side. The general sense would then bemuch the same as in (2), but such a use of the dative may be pro-nounced impossible, and is not justified by the A
. The Odyssey of Homer, done into English prose by Butcher and A. Lang. o, even if Odysseus had the larger following. We have not ventured to introduce this into the text, as being de-ficient in authority, though it certainly adds point as well as simplicityto the passage. Another suggestion of the Scholiast is to retain the MSS. reading in251, and regard nXfoveaci in each case as equivalent to avv ir\c6v(afft,* fight with more men on your side. The general sense would then bemuch the same as in (2), but such a use of the dative may be pro-nounced impossible, and is not justified by the Attic phrases arpar^,CToAy pMx^odai* Note, Page 36; Book iii. 163. a\t.^i(\ia-aai — recurvatcB. Ships thus described had probably a curved beak at either extremity,raised high out of the water. In the reliefs at Medinet Habou. there is 414 NOTES. a picture of a sea fight between the Egyptians under Ramses III. (i 200-1166 ) and those maritime peoples of the Mediterranean, amongwhom it has been usual to recognize the ancestors of the Achaeans,Etruscans, and The ships of these pre-homeric sea-kings might be called a^(pii\iaaai;they are lofty in prow and stern, and either extremity is finished off witha curved birds beak, which rises high out of the water. The vessels ofthe Egyptians are low at prow and stern, and have not that raised andfenced half-deck on which the warrior stands in our engraving. Thisis the place where Odysseus posted himself when he meant to offerbattle to Scylla of the rock. (Od. xii. 229, 230):— jTpprji. If this be the correct explanation of afi<pi(Xi(Taai, it must be re-membered that the term would no longer apply to Greek vessels of thesixth century, as represented in the vases of that period. The prow wasby that time constructed for ramming purposes, for which the high birdsbeaks of the early Mediterranean vessels were not at all adapted. Anexample of the Homeric ship, or something like it, is painted on a veryold vase in the Cesnola
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