????--Asphodel was planted on the graves and
around the tombs of the deceased, and hence the supposition that the
Stygian plain was clothed with asphodel. F.
[53] ?????????
must have this sense
interpreted
by what follows.
To
attempt to make the English numbers expressive as the Greek is a labour
like that of Sisyphus. The Translator has done what he could.
[54] It is now, perhaps, impossible to ascertain with precision what
Homer meant by the word ????????, which he uses only here, and in the
next book, where it is the name of Scylla's dam.--????
