[43] Perhaps this is the ἀεικέλιον πάθος (Od. 14. 32) which Odysseus would have endured for some time but for the intervention of Eumaeus. Otherwise the line must have been inserted by someone who did not appreciate the guile of Odysseus.
[44] ll. 35–6.
[45] l. 38.
[46] ll. 45–7.
[47] ll. 72–7.
[48] l. 78.
[49] ll. 79–80.
[50] In some islands the old word φόρμιγγα also is still used.
[51] C.I.G. vol. I. p. 790 (No. 1625, l. 47) τὰς δὲ πατρίους πομπὰς μεγάλας καὶ τὴν τῶν συρτῶν ὄρχησιν θεοσεβῶς ἐπετέλεσεν (from Carditsa, anc. Acraephia, in Boeotia).
[52] For examples see Passow, Popul. Carm. nos. 305–309.