Thursday, October 30, 2025

 

Telemachus Inhaled

Homer, Odyssey 1.367 (tr. Emily Wilson):
Telemachus inhaled

Τηλέμαχος πεπνυμένος
On the meaning of the epithet see M.P. Cuypers, in Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos, fasc. 20 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004), cols. 1157-1161, s.v. πέπνυμαι, who says (col. 1160) that the epithet is applied 49 times to Telemachus in the Odyssey. See also John Heath, "Telemachus ΠΕΠΝΥΜΕΝΟΣ : Growing into an Epithet," Mnemosyne 54.2 (April, 2001) 129-157.

Richmond Lattimore consistently translates the formula as "thoughtful Telemachus." Elsewhere in the first book of the Odyssey Wilson translates the epithet as applied to Telemachus differently each time it occurs:

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 4:27 PM


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