[157]
[ See note [156]
[158]
[ This, I take it, was immediately in front of the main entrance of the inner courtyard into the body of the house.]
[159]
[ This is the only allusion to Sardinia in either “Iliad” or “Odyssey.”]
[160]
[ The normal translation of the Greek word would be “holding back,” “curbing,” “restraining,” but I cannot think that the writer meant this—she must have been using the word in its other sense of “having,” “holding,” “keeping,” “maintaining.”]
[161]
[ I have vainly tried to realise the construction of the fastening here described.]