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The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems

THE END OF HOMER’S BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE.

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[1] Intending men: being divided from all other creatures by the voice; μέροψ, being a periphrasis, signifying voce divisus, of μείρω (μείρομαι) divido, and ὅψ, ὁπός, vox.
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[2]Φυσίγναθος, Genas et buccas inflans.
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[3]Πηλεύς, qui ex luto nascitur.
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[4]‘ϒδρομέδουνα. Aquarum regina.
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[6]Ψιχάρπαξ. Gather-crum, or ravish-crum,
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[9] Bacon-flitch-devourer, or gnawer.
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[10]Τανύπεπλος. Extenso et prourisso peploamictus. A metaphor taken from ladies’ veils, or trains, and therefore their names are here added.
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[11]῞Ηπατα λευκοχίτωνα. Livering puddings white-skinn’d.
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[12]Παντοδαποι̑σιν. Whose common exposition is only variis, when it properly signifies ex omni solo.
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[13]Στονόεσσαν, of στενός, angutstus.
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[15]Ευ͒ τ᾽ ἀσκήσαντες, ab ἀσκέω, elaboratè concinno.
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[17] Cheese-miner. Qui caseum rodendo cavat.
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[18]Μιμούμενος. Aping, or imitating us.
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[20]Στέμματα, Lanas, eo quod colus cingant seu coronent. Which our learned sect translate eating the crowns that Pallas wore.
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[21]Τόκος. Partus, et id quod partu edidit mater. Metap. hic appellatur fænus quod ex usurâ ad nos redit.
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[25] Hole-dweller. Qui foramina subit.
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[29]Πολύφωνον. The great-noise-maker, shrill or big-voiced.
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[32]Τιτύσκομαι intentissime dirigo ut certum ictum inferam.
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[35]Qui in calaminthâ, herbâ palustri, habitat.

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The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems, Project Gutenberg eBook #48895

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