Chapter 1

Notes

1. 1

   Potter would here read λιπαροῦ, “elegant” [ironically for effeminate]; but the above reading is defended by Sylburg, on the ground that shepherds were so greatly despised, that this is not too hard an epithet to apply to Paris.

2. 2

   Of the many attempts to amend this clause, there seems to be none satisfactory.

3. 3

   Or, won the reputation of the virtue of wisdom by the vice of deceit.

4. 4

   That is, the manner in which he did it, stopping his companions’ ears with wax, and having himself bound to the mast of his ship.