[429] There were columns outside the doors, for example, of the palace of Ulysses in Ithaca. Od. xvii. 29. This construction of the metaphor would come nearly to the same point, by making it mean the doors of Ocean.
[430] Hermann Opusc. vii. 253. Nägelsbach, ii. 9, note.
[431] Blakesley’s Introduction to Herodotus, p. xiv.
[432] Strabo iii. 2. 13, 14. pp. 149, 50.
[433] Mure, Greek Literature, i. 510.
[434] Il. xv. 630. xvii. 21. ii. 723.
[435] Il. xxii. 15.
[436] Il. iii. 365.
[437] Od. xx. 201.
[438] Il. xxiii. 439.