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was coined upon that of Nestor?
{21} i.e. in the outer court, and in the uncovered part of
the inner house.
{22} This would be fair from Sicily, which was doing duty
for Ithaca in the mind of the writer, but a North wind would
have been preferable for a voyage from the real Ithaca to
Pylos.
{23} [Greek] The wind does not whistle over waves. It
only whistles through rigging or some other obstacle that
cuts it.
{24} cf. ‘Il.’ v.20. [Greek] The Odyssean line is [Greek].
There can be no doubt that the Odyssean line was suggested
by the Iliadic, but nothing can explain why Idaeus jumping
from his chariot should suggest to the writer of the ‘Odys-
sey’ the sun jumping from the sea. The probability is that
she never gave the matter a thought, but took the line in
question as an effect of saturation with the ‘Iliad,’ and of un-
conscious cerebration. The ‘Odyssey’ contains many such
examples.
{25} The heart, liver, lights, kidneys, etc. were taken out
from the inside and eaten first as being more readily cooked;
the [Greek], or bone meat, was cooking while the [Greek]
or inward parts were being eaten. I imagine that the thigh
bones made a kind of gridiron, while at the same time the
marrow inside them got cooked.
{26} i.e. skewers, either single, double, or even five
pronged. The meat would be pierced with the skewer, and
laid over the ashes to grill—the two ends of the skewer be-
ing supported in whatever way convenient. Meat so cooking

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