. The Odyssey of Homer, done into English prose by Butcher and A. Lang. P^iG. Fig 5. handle (fig. i). But it must be observed (a) that wpdiTTjs, in juxta-position with -rrdvTOJv, would naturally mean the first of the row, (not* the outermost tip of the handle,) and in this sense we prefer to take it, £62 420 NOTES. The genitive will then be an ablative genitive, not uncommon in Homer.(/3) That we are not acquainted with any examples of ancient Greek axeslike that drawn by Goebel. The double-headed axe which is representedin miniature on some ornaments from the Mycenaean graves (Schlie
. The Odyssey of Homer, done into English prose by Butcher and A. Lang. P^iG. Fig 5. handle (fig. i). But it must be observed (a) that wpdiTTjs, in juxta-position with -rrdvTOJv, would naturally mean the first of the row, (not* the outermost tip of the handle,) and in this sense we prefer to take it, £62 420 NOTES. The genitive will then be an ablative genitive, not uncommon in Homer.(/3) That we are not acquainted with any examples of ancient Greek axeslike that drawn by Goebel. The double-headed axe which is representedin miniature on some ornaments from the Mycenaean graves (Schlie-manns Mycenae und Tiryns, pp. 218, 253, 362) and in a heraldic designon a ring, found near Mycenae, is hammer-headed, as in figure 2. Therewould be no difficulty in merely shooting over the tops of the handlesof axes like these. Many commentators have supposed that the axe-heads were stuck inthe ground by their edges, without the handles, and that Odysseus shotthrough the handle-hole. But even if axes, in Homers time, wereattached to the handle by the method familiar to us, and t
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