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A Note on Odyssey 10. 86
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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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.’
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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.)