Neither the mules do I begrudge you, my child, nor anything else.There is no note on this line in J.B. Hainsworth's commentary, but none is needed. Any father with a daughter will immediately understand.
οὔτε τοι ἡμιόνων φθονέω, τέκος, οὔτε τευ ἄλλου.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Monday, March 19, 2018
Father to Daughter
Homer, Odyssey 6.68 (Alcinous to Nausicaa; tr. A.T. Murray, rev. George E. Dimock):