Greek Texts & Translations

topographical descriptions he not unfrequently informs us of both these matters. Thus, My abode
Is sun-burnt Ithaca.
Flat on the deep she lies, farthest removed
Toward the west, while situate apart,
Her sister islands face the rising day. ^note
Odyssey ix. 25. And, It has a two-fold entrance,
One towards the north, the other south. ^note
Odyssey xiii. 109, 111. And again, Which I alike despise, speed they their course
With right-hand flight towards the ruddy east,
Or leftward down into the shades of eve. ^note
Iliad xii. 239. Ignorance of such matters he reckons no less than confusion. Alas! my friends, for neither west
Know we, nor east; where rises or where sets
The all-enlightening sun. ^note
Odyssey x. 190. Where the poet has said properly enough, As when two adverse winds, blowing from Thrace,
Boreas and Zephyrus, ^note
Iliad ix.5. Eratosthenes ill-naturedly misrepresents him as saying in an absolute sense, that the west wind blows from Thrace; whereas he is not speaking in an absolute sense at all, but merely of the meeting of contrary winds near the bay of Melas, ^note on the Thracian sea, itself a part of the Aegaean. For where Thrace forms a kind of promontory, where it borders on Macedonia, ^note