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of the voyages of Ulysses. She could not, however, break
his long drift from Charybdis to the island of Pantellaria;
she therefore resolved to make it up to Syracuse in another
way.
{135} Modern excavations establish the existence of two
and only two pre-Dorian communities at Syracuse; they
were, so Dr. Orsi informed me, at Plemmirio and Cozzo
Pantano. See The Authoress of the Odyssey, pp. 211-213.
{136} This harbour is again evidently the harbour in
which Ulysses had landed, i.e. the harbour that is now the
salt works of S. Cusumano.
{137} This never can have been anything but very nig-
gardly pay for some eight or nine days’ service. I suppose
the crew were to consider the pleasure of having had a trip
to Pylos as a set off. There is no trace of the dinner as hav-
ing been actually given, either on the following or any other
morning.
{138} No hawk can tear its prey while it is on the wing.
{139} The text is here apparently corrupt, and will not
make sense as it stands. I follow Messrs. Butcher and Lang
in omitting line 101.
{140} i.e. to be milked, as in South Italian and Sicilian
towns at the present day.
{141} The butchering and making ready the carcases took
place partly in the outer yard and partly in the open part of
the inner court.
{142} These words cannot mean that it would be after-
noon soon after they were spoken. Ulysses and Eumaeus
reached the town which was ‘some way off’ (xvii. 25) in time