Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
1308 (return) [ The alternative version is: ‘and, working, you will be
much better loved both by gods and men; for they greatly dislike the
idle.’]
1309 (return) [ _i.e._ neighbours come at once and without making
preparations, but kinsmen by marriage (who live at a distance) have to
prepare, and so are long in coming.]
1310 (return) [ Early in May.]
1311 (return) [ In November.]
1312 (return) [ In October.]
1313 (return) [ For pounding corn.]
1314 (return) [ A mallet for breaking clods after ploughing.]
1315 (return) [ The loaf is a flattish cake with two intersecting lines
scored on its upper surface which divide it into four equal parts.]
1316 (return) [ The meaning is obscure. A scholiast renders ‘giving
eight mouthfulls’; but the elder Philostratus uses the word in contrast
to ‘leavened’.]
1317 (return) [ About the middle of November.]
1318 (return) [ Spring is so described because the buds have not yet
cast their iron-grey husks.]
1319 (return) [ In December.]
1320 (return) [ In March.]
1321 (return) [ The latter part of January and earlier part of
February.]
1322 (return) [ _i.e._ the octopus or cuttle.]
1323 (return) [ _i.e._ the darker-skinned people of Africa, the
Egyptians or Aethiopians.]
1324 (return) [ _i.e._ an old man walking with a staff (the ‘third
leg’— as in the riddle of the Sphinx).]
1325 (return) [ February to March.]
1326 (return) [ _i.e._ the snail. The season is the middle of May.]
1327 (return) [ In June.]
1328 (return) [ July.]
1329 (return) [ _i.e._ a robber.]
1330 (return) [ September.]
1331 (return) [ The end of October.]
1332 (return) [ That is, the succession of stars which make up the full
year.]
1333 (return) [ The end of October or beginning of November.]
1334 (return) [ July-August.]
1335 (return) [ _i.e._ untimely, premature. Juvenal similarly speaks of
‘cruda senectus’ (caused by gluttony).]
1336 (return) [ The thought is parallel to that of ‘O, what a goodly
outside falsehood hath.’]
1337 (return) [ The ‘common feast’ is one to which all present
subscribe. Theognis (line 495) says that one of the chief pleasures of
a banquet is the general conversation. Hence the present passage means
that such a feast naturally costs little, while the many present will
make pleasurable conversation.]
1338 (return) [ _i.e._ ‘do not cut your finger-nails’.]
1339 (return) [ _i.e._ things which it would be sacrilege to disturb,
such as tombs.]
1340 (return) [ H.G. Evelyn-White prefers to switch ll. 768 and 769,
reading l. 769 first then l. 768.—DBK]
1341 (return) [ The month is divided into three periods, the waxing,
the mid-month, and the waning, which answer to the phases of the moon.]
1342 (return) [ _i.e._ the ant.]
1343 (return) [ Such seems to be the meaning here, though the epithet
is otherwise rendered ‘well-rounded’. Corn was threshed by means of a
sleigh with two runners having three or four rollers between them, like
the modern Egyptian _nurag_.]
1401 (return) [ This halt verse is added by the Scholiast on Aratus,
172.]
1402 (return) [ The “Catasterismi” (“Placings among the Stars”) is a
collection of legends relating to the various constellations.]
1403 (return) [ The Straits of Messina.]
1501 (return) [ Or perhaps ‘a Scythian’.]
1601 (return) [ The epithet probably indicates coquettishness.]
1602 (return) [ A proverbial saying meaning, ‘why enlarge on irrelevant
topics?’]
1603 (return) [ ‘She of the noble voice’: Calliope is queen of Epic
poetry.]
1604 (return) [ Earth, in the cosmology of Hesiod, is a disk surrounded
by the river Oceanus and floating upon a waste of waters. It is called
the foundation of all (the qualification ‘the deathless ones...’ etc.
is an interpolation), because not only trees, men, and animals, but
even the hills and seas (ll. 129, 131) are supported by it.]
1605 (return) [ Aether is the bright, untainted upper atmosphere, as
distinguished from Aer, the lower atmosphere of the earth.]
1606 (return) [ Brontes is the Thunderer; Steropes, the Lightener; and
Arges, the Vivid One.]
1607 (return) [ The myth accounts for the separation of Heaven and
Earth. In Egyptian cosmology Nut (the Sky) is thrust and held apart
from her brother Geb (the Earth) by their father Shu, who corresponds
to the Greek Atlas.]
1608 (return) [ Nymphs of the ash-trees, as Dryads are nymphs of the
oak-trees. Cp. note on _Works and Days_, l. 145.]
1609 (return) [ ‘Member-loving’: the title is perhaps only a perversion
of the regular PHILOMEIDES (laughter-loving).]
1610 (return) [ Cletho (the Spinner) is she who spins the thread of
man’s life; Lachesis (the Disposer of Lots) assigns to each man his
destiny; Atropos (She who cannot be turned) is the ‘Fury with the
abhorred shears.’]
1611 (return) [ Many of the names which follow express various
qualities or aspects of the sea: thus Galene is ‘Calm’, Cymothoe is the
‘Wave-swift’, Pherusa and Dynamene are ‘She who speeds (ships)’ and
‘She who has power’.]
1612 (return) [ The ‘Wave-receiver’ and the ‘Wave-stiller’.]
1613 (return) [ ‘The Unerring’ or ‘Truthful’; cp. l. 235.]
1614 (return) [ _i.e._ Poseidon.]
1615 (return) [ Goettling notes that some of these nymphs derive their
names from lands over which they preside, as Europa, Asia, Doris,
Ianeira (‘Lady of the Ionians’), but that most are called after some
quality which their streams possessed: thus Xanthe is the ‘Brown’ or
‘Turbid’, Amphirho is the ‘Surrounding’ river, Ianthe is ‘She who
delights’, and Ocyrrhoe is the ‘Swift-flowing’.]
1616 (return) [ _i.e._ Eos, the ‘Early-born’.]
1617 (return) [ Van Lennep explains that Hecate, having no brothers to
support her claim, might have been slighted.]
1618 (return) [ The goddess of the _hearth_ (the Roman _Vesta_), and so
of the house. Cp. _Homeric Hymns_ v.22 ff.; xxxix.1 ff.]
1619 (return) [ The variant reading ‘of his father’ (sc. Heaven) rests
on inferior MS. authority and is probably an alteration due to the
difficulty stated by a Scholiast: ‘How could Zeus, being not yet
begotten, plot against his father?’ The phrase is, however, part of the
prophecy. The whole line may well be spurious, and is rejected by
Heyne, Wolf, Gaisford and Guyet.]
1620 (return) [ Pausanias (x. 24.6) saw near the tomb of Neoptolemus ‘a
stone of no great size’, which the Delphians anointed every day with
oil, and which he says was supposed to be the stone given to Cronos.]
1621 (return) [ A Scholiast explains: ‘Either because they (men) sprang
from the Melian nymphs (cp. l. 187); or because, when they were born
(?), they cast themselves under the ash-trees, that is, the trees.’ The
reference may be to the origin of men from ash-trees: cp. _Works and
Days_, l. 145 and note.]
1622 (return) [ _sc_. Atlas, the Shu of Egyptian mythology: cp. note on
line 177.]
1623 (return) [ Oceanus is here regarded as a continuous stream
enclosing the earth and the seas, and so as flowing back upon himself.]
1624 (return) [ The conception of Oceanus is here different: he has
nine streams which encircle the earth and then flow out into the ‘main’
which appears to be the waste of waters on which, according to early
Greek and Hebrew cosmology, the disk-like earth floated.]
1625 (return) [ _i.e._ the threshold is of ‘native’ metal, and not
artificial.]
1626 (return) [ According to Homer Typhoeus was overwhelmed by Zeus
amongst the Arimi in Cilicia. Pindar represents him as buried under
Aetna, and Tzetzes reads Aetna in this passage.]
1627 (return) [ The epithet (which means literally _well-bored_) seems
to refer to the spout of the crucible.]
1628 (return) [ The fire god. There is no reference to volcanic action:
iron was smelted on Mount Ida; cp. _Epigrams of Homer_, ix. 2-4.]
1629 (return) [ _i.e._ Athena, who was born ‘on the banks of the river
Trito’ (cp. l. 929l)]
1630 (return) [ Restored by Peppmuller. The nineteen following lines
from another recension of lines 889-900, 924-9 are quoted by Chrysippus
(in Galen).]
1631 (return) [ _sc_. the aegis. Line 929s is probably spurious, since
it disagrees with l. 929q and contains a suspicious reference to
Athens.]
1701 (return) [ A catalogue of heroines each of whom was introduced
with the words E OIE, ‘Or like her’.]
1702 (return) [ An antiquarian writer of Byzantium, c. 490-570 A.D.]
1703 (return) [ Constantine VII. ‘Born in the Porphyry Chamber’,
905-959 A.D.]
1704 (return) [ “Berlin Papyri”, 7497 (left-hand fragment) and
“Oxyrhynchus Papyri”, 421 (right-hand fragment). For the restoration
see “Class. Quart.” vii. 217-8.]
1705 (return) [ As the price to be given to her father for her: so in
_Iliad_ xviii. 593 maidens are called ‘earners of oxen’. Possibly
Glaucus, like Aias (fr. 68, ll. 55 ff.), raided the cattle of others.]
1706 (return) [ _i.e._ Glaucus should father the children of others.
The curse of Aphrodite on the daughters of Tyndareus (fr. 67) may be
compared.]
1707 (return) [ Porphyry, scholar, mathematician, philosopher and
historian, lived 233-305 (?) A.D. He was a pupil of the neo-Platonist
Plotinus.]
1708 (return) [ Author of a geographical lexicon, produced after 400
A.D., and abridged under Justinian.]
1709 (return) [ Archbishop of Thessalonica 1175-1192 (?) A.D., author
of commentaries on Pindar and on the _Iliad_ and _Odyssey_.]
1710 (return) [ In the earliest times a loin-cloth was worn by
athletes, but was discarded after the 14th Olympiad.]
1711 (return) [ Slight remains of five lines precede line 1 in the
original: after line 20 an unknown number of lines have been lost, and
traces of a verse preceding line 21 are here omitted. Between lines 29
and 30 are fragments of six verses which do not suggest any definite
restoration. (NOTE: Line enumeration is that according to Evelyn-White;
a slightly different line numbering system is adopted in the original
publication of this fragment.—DBK)]
1712 (return) [ The end of Schoeneus’ speech, the preparations and the
beginning of the race are lost.]
1713 (return) [ Of the three which Aphrodite gave him to enable him to
overcome Atalanta.]
1714 (return) [ The geographer; fl. c.24 B.C.]
1715 (return) [ Of Miletus, flourished about 520 B.C. His work, a
mixture of history and geography, was used by Herodotus.]
1716 (return) [ The Hesiodic story of the daughters of Proetus can be
reconstructed from these sources. They were sought in marriage by all
the Greeks (Pauhellenes), but having offended Dionysus (or, according
to Servius, Juno), were afflicted with a disease which destroyed their
beauty (or were turned into cows). They were finally healed by
Melampus.]
1717 (return) [ Fl. 56-88 A.D.: he is best known for his work on
Vergil.]
1718 (return) [ This and the following fragment segment are meant to be
read together.—DBK.]
1719 (return) [ This fragment as well as fragments #40A, #101, and #102
were added by Mr. Evelyn-White in an appendix to the second edition
(1919). They are here moved to the _Catalogues_ proper for easier use
by the reader.—DBK.]
1720 (return) [ For the restoration of ll. 1-16 see “Ox. Pap.” pt. xi.
pp. 46-7: the supplements of ll. 17-31 are by the Translator (cp.
“Class. Quart.” x. (1916), pp. 65-67).]
1721 (return) [ The crocus was to attract Europa, as in the very
similar story of Persephone: cp. _Homeric Hymns_ ii. lines 8 ff.]
1722 (return) [ Apollodorus of Athens (fl. 144 B.C.) was a pupil of
Aristarchus. He wrote a Handbook of Mythology, from which the extant
work bearing his name is derived.]
1723 (return) [ Priest at Praeneste. He lived c. 170-230 A.D.]
1724 (return) [ Son of Apollonius Dyscolus, lived in Rome under Marcus
Aurelius. His chief work was on accentuation.]