[Page 47]. The reference to Mr. Verrall refers to his article on Homer in The Quarterly Review, July, 1908. I myself suppose that some editorial work was done for the Iliad and Odyssey at Athens, before the Persian war. There is plenty of smoke in literary tradition, and ‘where there is smoke there is fire’. But the smoke-wreaths are vague and multiform as the misty ghosts in Ossian, and I cannot, with Mr. Verrall, regard the words of a fourth-century orator.
[Page 48]. Lycurgus is not ‘record’. By ‘record evidence’ for Greece I understand inscriptions, nothing more and nothing less.
[Page 57]. ‘cuirass, zoster, and mitrê.’ See figure, a copy of a clay seal, of which nearly a hundred impressions have been published in Monumenti Antichi. See for further particulars my article on Homer in Blackwood’s Magazine for January, 1908, also Mackenzie, Annual of the British School at Athens (1905-6, p. 241).
[Page 59]. Odyssey xvi. 294, xix. 13, for
αὐτὸς γὰρ ἐφέλκεται ἄνδρα σίδηρος
a friend suggests
αὒτως γὰρ ἐφέλκεται ἀνδράσι δῆρις.
This emendation I leave at the mercy of the learned.