Book 1
2.36
Every word of this indicates a considerable length of time, especially when he prolongs it to the evening, not merely saying at that time when the judge has risen, but having adjudicated on a vast number of cases, and therefore detained longer than usual. Otherwise his account of the return of the wreck would not have appeared likely, if he had brought it back again with the return of the wave, before it had been first carried a long way off.
2.37
Apollodorus, who agrees with Eratosthenes, throws much blame upon Callimachus for asserting, in spite of his character as a grammarian, that GaudusGaudus, the little island of Gozo near Malta, supposed by Callimachus to have been the Isle of Calypso. and CorcyraIt seems more probable that Callimachus intended the island of Corsura, now Pantalaria, a small island between Africa and Sicily. were among the scenes of Ulysses’ wandering, such an opinion being altogether in defiance of Homer’s statement, and his description of the places as situated in the exterior ocean.The Atlantic.
