THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER, WITH THE HYMNS, EPIGRAMS, AND BATTLE OF THE FROGS Literally Translated, WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, BY THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY, B.A., OF CHRIST CHURCH. HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK AND LONDON, 1899. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. The above works are for sale by all booksellers, or they will be sent by Harper & BrotTHERS to any address on receipt of price as quoted. If ordered sent by mail, 10 per cent. should be added to the price to cover cost of postage. PREFACE TO THE ODYSSEY. THE present translation of the Odyssey has been exe cuted on the same plan as that of the Iliad, to which it forms the companion-volume. The Hymns and Minor Poems are now, for the first time, literally translated, completing all that has been attributed to Homer. For these the editions of Ruhnken, Ernesti, and Hermann have been principally followed. Had the limits of the volume permitted, a more critical investigation of the various readings and conjectures of scholars would have been given; but the editor trusts that what has been done will be found sufficient for the wants of the student. The frequent quotations from the brilliant paraphrases of Chapman, Congreve, and Shelley, can not, he thinks, fail to prove interesting to the general reader. For the translation of the Pseudo-Herodotean Life of Homer the reader is indebted to the industry of Kenneth Mackenzie, Esq. It is the earliest memoir of the supposed author of the Iliad we possess, and, as such, mer its translation. T. A. B. THE LIFE OF HOMER, ATTRIBUTED TO HERODOTUS. 1 HERODOTUS of Halicarnassus, in the pursuit of truth, writes this history of the birth and life of Homer. I. When, many years ago, the city of Cuma in Æolia was built, there flocked to it many persons of the various nations of Greece, and among them were some from Magnesia.2 One of these was Menapolus, the son of Ithagenes, the son of Crito. This man, far from possessing riches, had scarcely the means of subsistence. When settled in Cumæ, he married the daughter of Omyretis. By this marriage, he had one child, a girl, whom he called Critheïs. The husband and wife both died, leaving this child very young. The father, before his death, appointed Cleanax of Argos, one of his most intimate friends, her guardian. II. In the course of time, by a secret intrigue, Critheïs found herself with child. This was for some time concealed; but Cleanax, having discovered it, was much afflicted by the occurrence, and privately reproached her with her fault, laying before her the dishonor she had brought upon herself. 1 Some editions of the History bore, as we find from Aristotle (Rhetoric ii. 9, § 1), the following variation from our usual superscription or preface: "This is the exposition of the historical researches of Herodotus of Thurium," etc. It is to be presumed that the edition which Aristotle mentioned was one of those revised after his retiring to that town from Halicarnassus (now called Budrun), in the fortieth year of his age, B.C. 444. Thurium was built near the ruins of Sybaris, in Lucania, by some Athenians. Some say, that the banished Thucydides (afterward recalled), Lysias, son of Cephalus, the celebrated orator, accompanied He rodotus (Strabo vi.; Plin. xii. 4; Mela ii. 4), but this is doubtful. 2 The present Mansa. |