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that place,’ they would have been omitted in the ‘Odyssey.’
{70} The reader will note that Alcinous never goes be-
yond saying that he is going to give the goblet; he never
gives it. Elsewhere in both ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ the offer of
a present is immediately followed by the statement that it
was given and received gladly—Alcinous actually does give
a chest and a cloak and shirt—probably also some of the
corn and wine for the long two-mile voyage was provided
by him—but it is quite plain that he gave no talent and no
cup.
{71} ‘Il.’ xviii, 344-349. These lines in the ‘Iliad’ tell of the
preparation for washing the body of Patroclus, and I am not
pleased that the writer of the ‘Odyssey’ should have adopted
them here.
{72} see note {64}
{73} see note {43}
{74} The reader will find this threat fulfilled in bk. xiii
{75} If the other islands lay some distance away from
Ithaca (which the word [Greek] suggests), what becomes of
the [Greek] or gut between Ithaca and Samos which we hear
of in Bks. iv. and xv.? I suspect that the authoress in her
mind makes Telemachus come back from Pylos to the Lily-
baean promontory and thence to Trapani through the strait
between the Isola Grande and the mainland—the island of
Asteria being the one on which Motya afterwards stood.
{76} ‘Il.’ xviii. 533-534. The sudden lapse into the third
person here for a couple of lines is due to the fact that the
two Iliadic lines taken are in the third person.
{77} cf. ‘Il.’ ii. 776. The words in both ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odys-