[166]
[ The reader will note how the spoiling of good food distresses the writer even in such a supreme moment as this.]
[167]
[ Here we have it again. Waste of substance comes first.]
[168]
[ cf. “Il.” iii. 337 and three other places. It is strange that the author of the “Iliad” should find a little horse-hair so alarming. Possibly enough she was merely borrowing a common form line from some earlier poet—or poetess—for this is a woman’s line rather than a man’s.]
[169]
[ Or perhaps simply “window.” See plan in the appendix.]
[170]
[ i.e. the pavement on which Ulysses was standing.]