A sturdy ox, and now beneath an oak
Prepared the feast; while women mixed, hard by,
White barley porridge for the labourers' meal."
LORD DERBY.
[192] Od. XIV. 76-77:—
ὀπτήσας δ' ἄρα πάντα φέρων παρέθηκ' 'Οδυσσῆï
θερμ' αὐτοῖς ὀβελοῖσιν· ὁ δ' ἄλφιτα λευκὰ πάλυνεν.
And when he had roasted all, he brought it and put it before Ulysses, still warm
on the spits, strewn over with white flour.
[193] See my 'Ithaque, le Péloponnèse, Troie.'