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writer takes to make it clear that none of the suitors were
allowed to sleep in Ulysses’ house.
{13} See Appendix; g, in plan of Ulysses’ house.
{14} I imagine this passage to be a rejoinder to ‘Il.’ xxiii.
702-705 in which a tripod is valued at twelve oxen, and a
good useful maid of all work at only four. The scrupulous
regard of Laertes for his wife’s feelings is of a piece with the
extreme jealousy for the honour of woman, which is mani-
fest throughout the ‘Odyssey”.
{15} [Greek] ‘The [Greek], or tunica, was a shirt or shift,
and served as the chief under garment of the Greeks and
Romans, whether men or women.’ Smith’s Dictionary of
Greek and Roman Antiquities, under ‘Tunica”.
{16} Doors fastened to all intents and purposes as here
described may be seen in the older houses at Trapani. There
is a slot on the outer side of the door by means of which a
person who has left the room can shoot the bolt. My bed-
room at the Albergo Centrale was fastened in this way.
{17} [Greek] So we vulgarly say ‘had cooked his goose,’ or
‘had settled his hash.’ Aegyptus cannot of course know of
the fate Antiphus had met with, for there had as yet been no
news of or from Ulysses.
{18} ‘Il.’ xxii. 416. [Greek] The authoress has bungled by
borrowing these words verbatim from the ‘Iliad’, without
prefixing the necessary ‘do not,’ which I have supplied.
{19} i.e. you have money, and could pay when I got judg-
ment, whereas the suitors are men of straw.
{20} cf. ‘Il.’ ii. 76. [Greek]. The Odyssean passage runs
[Greek]. Is it possible not to suspect that the name Mentor

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