[55] The two first lines of the following book seem to ascertain the true
meaning of the conclusion of this, and to prove
sufficiently
that by
?
Odyssey - Cowper
??????, which he uses only here, and in the
next book, where it is the name of Scylla's dam.--???????--is also of
very doubtful explication.
[55] The two first lines of the following book seem to ascertain the true
meaning of the conclusion of this, and to prove
sufficiently
that by
?
?????? here Homer could not possibly intend any other than a river. In
those lines he tells us in the plainest terms that _the ship left the
stream of the river Oceanus, and arrived in the open sea_. Diodorus
Siculus informs us that ???????
