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{91} I suppose the lines I have enclosed in brackets to
have been added by the author when she enlarged her origi-
nal scheme by the addition of books i.-iv. and xiii. (from line
187)-xxiv. The reader will observe that in the corresponding
passage (xii. 137-141) the prophecy ends with ‘after losing all
your comrades,’ and that there is no allusion to the suitors.
For fuller explanation see ‘The Authoress of the Odyssey’
pp. 254-255.
{92} The reader will remember that we are in the first
year of Ulysses’ wanderings, Telemachus therefore was only
eleven years old. The same anachronism is made later on in
this book. See ‘The Authoress of the Odyssey’ pp. 132-133.
{93} Tradition says that she had hanged herself. Cf. ‘Od-
yssey’ xv. 355, etc.
{94} Not to be confounded with Aeolus king of the
winds.
{95} Melampus, vide book xv. 223, etc.
{96} I have already said in a note on bk. xi. 186 that at this
point of Ulysses’ voyage Telemachus could only be between
eleven and twelve years old.
{97} Is the writer a man or a woman?
{98} Cf. ‘Il.’ iv. 521, [Greek]. The Odyssean line reads,
[Greek]. The famous dactylism, therefore, of the Odysse-
an line was probably suggested by that of the Ileadic rather
than by a desire to accommodate sound to sense. At any
rate the double coincidence of a dactylic line, and an ending
[Greek], seems conclusive as to the familiarity of the writer
of the ‘Odyssey’ with the Iliadic line.
{99} Off the coast of Sicily and South Italy, in the month