by Peter Wright

Page 231, Line 9. the ... wine of worship. Tr. ‘gerousion’: of elders

Page 231, Line 15. in boot thereof. Tr. 'tisomet': in recompense of it

Page 232, Line 41. The speeders. Tr. ‘pompe’: the send-off. In lines 135-80, ‘pompe’ is usually tr. as ‘ferry.’

Page 234, Line 74. soft and sweet. Tr. ‘negreton’: rather sound. Tr. in line 80 to ‘unbroken’.

Page 234, Line 85. the tumble of the sea. Tr. ‘poluphloisboio halaaes’: rather ‘the loudroaring sea’.

Page 234, Line 91. the terrible deeds of the deep. In Greek, ‘alegeina kumara’: wearisome waves; tr. line 264 to ‘the dreadful waves of the sea’.

Page 238, Line 201. of no doom wotting. i.e. not knowing of justice.

Page 239, Line 235. the main. the mainland

Page 240, Lines 259-60. Idomeneus … Orsilochus. The king of Crete and leader of the Cretan contingent at Troy. His son Orsilochus, known elsewhere in legend; was presumably in this invented tale killed after the Trojan war was over.

Page 241, Line 291. shifty. Tr. ‘epiklopos’: skilled at stealing.

Page 241, Line 293. guile-greedy. Tr. ‘poikilometa’: full of varied guiles.

Page 243, Line 350. gifts a hundredfold. Tr. ’heketombas’: literally 'sacrifices of a hundred oxen'.

Page 245, Line 399. a clout. Tr. ‘laiphos’: rags and tatters; in line 434, tr. ‘rakos’.

Page 246, Line 426. Those youths. Tr. ‘neoi’ (the Wooers).