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Book Nine
conjectural: in Hsch. the yurj is equated with the TrAeOpov (c. 1,000 sq. yds),
and at Od. 18.374 TETpdyuos denotes the extent of a day's labour with the
best oxen.
583 youvouusvos: 'entreating' (Oineus is outside the doors), cf.
youvouuoci of Odysseus standing before Nausikaa {Od. 6.149).
584 KCcaiyvrjTOu: there were four of them according to bT — Deianeira,
Gorge, Poluxo, and Autonoe. ur)TT|p: a slip, surely; in the circumstances
Althaie's prayers could hardly have moved her son. A scholiast (b), however,
noted that as an offending party Althaie is analogous to Agamemnon,
but there is no hint that she ever repented of her action.
588-9 The fit of the parable is again made close: the city was on fire
when Meleagros acted, just as Akhilleus was forced to act when the Trojans
eventually fired a ship (16.1226°.).
593-4 A brief description of the horrors of a sack; cf, with further
atrocities, Priam's vision of the sack of Troy (22.62-71).
594 (3a0u^covous describes the dress of archaic and classical times which
allowed a fold of material (KOATTOS) to hang over the girdle; the Mycenaean
style was strikingly different, see Sp. Marinatos, Arch. Horn, A/B 25—31.
(3O6UKOATTOS (3X //.) occurs in a formular verse referring to Trojan or
Dardanian women, but that is hardly enough to establish a contrast between
Greek and Asiatic fashions: see, however, West on Od. 3.154. — ocAAoi
is 'others' in the sense of 'strangers', as at 3.301. Zenodotus made the point
clear by reading 8f)ioi (Arn/A).
596 E5U