Friday, March 31, 2017
Things of Value
Homer, Iliad 23.259-261 (my translation):
Nicholas Richardson ad loc.:
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From the ships he brought out prizes — cauldrons and tripodsWith the periphrasis βοῶν ... κάρηνα cf. English "head of cattle." Related to κάρηνον is κρανίον, whence cranium: see Pierre Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, II (Paris: Klincksieck, 1970), s.v. κάρα, p. 496.
and horses and mules and strong heads of oxen
and well-girdled women and grey iron.
νηῶν δ᾽ ἔκφερ᾽ ἄεθλα λέβητάς τε τρίποδάς τε
ἵππους θ᾽ ἡμιόνους τε βοῶν τ᾽ ἴφθιμα κάρηνα,
ἠδὲ γυναῖκας ἐϋζώνους πολιόν τε σίδηρον.
Nicholas Richardson ad loc.:
