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Title: Homeric games at ancient St. Andrews; an epyllium. Edited from a comparatively modern papyrus and shattered by means of the higher criticism
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Shewan, Alexander, 1851-
Subjects: Homer
Publisher: Edinburgh J. Thin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ities in the language andverse. So the critics will condemn the close, from 553 on, as they dothe end of the Doloneia, because every single detail is not clearlystated, regardless of the fact that modern writers, as Shakespeare,Scott and others give us unsatisfactory and even muddled conclusions.I fear the result of all our excisions is to leave little of any worth.It is always the way, if one listens, as of course one ought, to thepromptings of the Higher Criticism. — KOKKivo-)(\a.i.viijv is a veryun-Hellenic note. We can hardly imagine the Greeks clothing theiryoung men in scarlet gowns. 556. This among themselves, es ■K\y)<s(ov aWoi, after the delinquentshave disappeared.—dKOGLa^irai, a very difificult word, not found else-where. It is evidently on the model of Tr€fx.Trd.^o/xat, Od. iv. 412, tocount by fives. It is doubtless a relic of a primitive vigesimalsystem of counting. Possibly the expression is from some cardgame, at which a player marked 20, as we mark the King.
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(To face p. 80. ALKXAl) 81 bitterly and had a good laugh at them. And thus wouldone of the scarlet-cloaked students say: Get out, ye scallawags, basest of mortals ! Evil dee(3ssucceed not, yea punishment followeth crime. Oh, myword, Dolichos is counting the twenty, and these chapswont have much profit of the bounty of Karnegios,—Karnegios who is wealthiest of mortal men, and doethbenevolence to all, dwelling now in Sklbos and now inPitzburg, where they simply coin money. And he hathany number of all-powerful tJialcrs^ and bestoweth grandprizes on all that ask of him, (on this one an organ, onthat a librar) full of folded tablets and worth ten thousand Perhaps we might translate, Aha! Old Dolichos is scoring thisjourney. 557. Kapf^7toy, perhaps connected with Kapi-ftos, title of Apollo asgod of flocks and herds, the great source of wealth in very ancientdays. Kdpvetos means the horned one, and Karnegios was evidentlya veritable cornucopia.—durivT), probably some grant-in-aid fromKa

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