[13]. Od., xxiii, 171. Cf. xxiii, 35, 81, 11; xix, 482, 500, etc.
[14]. Homeric Hymn Dem., 147.
[15]. Euripides, Hipp., 243.
[16]. Il., xxii, 82. Cf. also xvi, 203 and Od., xi, 448.
[17]. Od., xix, 482.
[18]. Ibid., xi, 448.
Note.—Seymour (Life in the Homeric Age, N. Y., 1914, p. 139), objects to this on the ground that “nothing indicates that she (Eurycleia) ever bore a child and could have served as a wet-nurse.” The words εὐνῇ δ’ οὔ ποτ’ ἔμικτο (Od. I, 433) merely show that Eurycleia was not the concubine of Laertes, and not that she was childless. Dolius, the slave, had a wife and family in the household of Laertes (Od. xxiv, 389). Moreover, if the apportioning of awards mentioned in Od., xxi, 214 (ἄξομαι ἀμφοτέροις ἀλόχους) were a matter of custom, would not the faithful Eurycleia have served as a very special prize? Cf. Buchholz, Die Hom. Realien, Leipzig, 1881, vol. II, Pt. 2, p. 24.
[19]. Od., vii, 9.
[20]. Ibid., i, 430. Cf. also xv, 428.
[21]. Il., 389.