Od. iii. 299.
544
See Ethnology, sect. iv. p. 304.
545
Hes. Theog. 1011-15.
546
Müller’s Orchomenos, p. 274.
547
Il. xii. 239, 40.
548
Od. x. 190-2.
549
Wood (Genius of Homer, p. 23,) says, ‘only four,’ meaning only four winds. But it is pretty clear that Homer’s four winds were not at anything like ninety degrees from one another. There is in Homer no word meaning strictly either south, or north. Daksha, however, from whence is derived δεξιὸς, means southerly as well as on the right: but probably S. E. rather than S. Pott, Etymolog. Forschungen, II. 186, 7.
550
Od. xii. 427.
551
Il. xxiii. 194.
552
Od. iv. 565-9.
553
Il. ix. 4.
554
Il. xxiii. 194, 212.
555
Il. ii. 144-6, 147-9.
556
The arrangement of these similes tells powerfully against the ingenious argument of Mr. Wood concerning the birthplace of Homer. Genius of Homer, pp. 7-33.
557
See General Reid’s Law of Storms and Variable Winds. London. 1849.
558
Buttmann. Lexil. voc. κέλαινος.
559
Il. xxiii. 214.
560
Il. xxiii. 214, as above.
561
Od. xiv. 253.
562
Il. xiv. 255. xv. 26.
563
Od. xix. 200.
564
Od. ix. 81.
565
Il. ii. 144-6. xvi. 765. Od. v. 330. xii. 326.
566
Friedreich has discussed the winds of Homer (Realien der Il. und Od. §. 3). His results are to me unsatisfactory: but the fault seems to lie in his basis. For (1) he fixes the four Winds of Homer as the four cardinal points: and (2) he finds data for ascertaining the Winds in the Passages of the Outer Geography, instead of determining those Passages themselves by the Winds, after these latter have been ascertained from evidence belonging to the sphere of Homer’s own experience.
567
Liddell and Scott in voc.
568