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The Odysseys of Homer

by George Chapman (translator)

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The End of the Nineteenth Book of Homer’s Odysseys

1 Χοὶνικος ἅπτηται, they will needs turn this, quadram (for modium) gustet. Though the words bear no such signification, but give a proverb then in use repetition, which was: he shall not join or make a spoke in the nave of my chariot, or chariot-wheel. Χοίνικον, or χοίνικις, signifying modiolus rotæ, and ἅπτω, recto.

2 Intending with truth itself, not his show only.

3 Autolycus gives his grandchild Ulysses his name: from whence the Odysseys is derived, ’Οδυσσεύς, derived of ὀδύζομαι, ex ὀδύνη factum; signifying dolorem proprie corporis, nam ira ex dolore oritur.

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