[145] Od. xiii. 125–64.
[146] V. 352. ibid. 871.
[147] Il. xv. 113.
[148] Il. vi. 135–40.
[149] Od. xii. 377 and 387.
[150] Il. ii. 594–600. It is common to render πηρὸς blind: but it would be strange that this should be meant, since blindness is associated in the case of Demodocus with conferring the gift of song, which here is taken away (Od. vii. 64). Apollodorus (i. 3. 3.) reports that the Muses had the power of blinding him by a previous agreement between him and them. The more natural construction of the passage seems to be such as I have ventured to point at in the text. For blindness did not maim Bards, who neither wrote nor read their compositions.
[151] Il. xxiv. 605–9.
[152] Od. iii. 135, 145.
[153] Il. xi. 45.
[154] Il. v. 735–42.