[137]
[ This never can have been anything but very niggardly pay for some eight or nine days’ service. I suppose the crew were to consider the pleasure of having had a trip to Pylos as a set off. There is no trace of the dinner as having been actually given, either on the following or any other morning.]
[138]
[ No hawk can tear its prey while it is on the wing.]
[139]
[ The text is here apparently corrupt, and will not make sense as it stands. I follow Messrs. Butcher & Lang in omitting line 101.]
[140]
[ i.e. to be milked, as in South Italian and Sicilian towns at the present day.]
[141]
[ The butchering and making ready the carcases took place partly in the outer yard and partly in the open part of the inner court.]