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A Note on Odyssey 10. 86

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

L. G. Pocock
Affiliation:
ChristchurchNew Zealand

Extract

IN Od. 10. 81–86 we read: ‘On the seventh day we came to the steep city of Lamos … where herdsman bringing in his charge hails herdsman taking his charge out, and he who takes them out returns the greeting. There might a sleepless man have earned a double wage, as cowman for the one part, as shepherd of white sheep for the other. For close ‹together› are the paths of night and day.’

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1968

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References

page 1 note 1 Original text in Stevenson, W. H., Early Scholastic Colloquies (Oxford, 1929), p. 78.Google Scholar

page 2 note 1 The ancient poet of Elymian Egesta, which I am sure is the right place. See RAO, Ch. IV. I take it of course that the two tracks to the different pastures converged at the approach to the township. (Sheep and cattle don't graze together.)

page 2 note 2 See RAO, Plates IX and X.Google Scholar

page 2 note 3 I think that if the articles could have been used before and there would have been no possible misunder-standing about the meaning of the line-though it would still have been ‘condensed’ (and would have been prose rather than poetry).

page 2 note 4 See Ch. V in my Odyssean Essays (Oxford, 1965, [= OE]).Google Scholar

page 2 note 5 See Ch. V in OE, pp. 42 f. and excursus: also in Ch. VII. See also ‘On Iliad xxiii. 71–76’, in Proceedings of the African Classical Associations (= PACA), viii (1965).

page 3 note 1 Most of them in OE Ch. V, and further discussions in Ch. VII. (They show also of course that both the Erga and Theogony were accounted the work of Hesiod.)