ARGUMENT
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Homer and Cowper, William
Source notes
11 Antilochus was his brother.
12 The son of Aurora, who slew Antilochus, was Memnon.
13 Because Pisistratus was born after Antilochus had sailed to Troy.
14 Proteus
15 Seals, or sea-calves.
16 From the abruptness of this beginning, Virgil, probably, who has copied the story, took the hint of his admired exordium.
Nam quis te, juvenum confidentissime, nostras. Egit adire domos.
17 Son of Oïleus.
18Δαιτυμων—generally signifies the founder of a feast; but we are taught by Eustathius to understand by it, in this place, the persons employed in preparing it.
19 This transition from the third to the second person belongs to the original, and is considered as a fine stroke of art in the poet, who represents Penelope in the warmth of her resentment, forgetting where she is, and addressing the suitors as if present.
20 Mistaking, perhaps, the sound of her voice, and imagining that she sang.—Vide Barnes in loco.