Book 10
2.12
But this line seems to imply some contradiction; it lies in the sea both low, and very high,Od. ix. 25.Od. ix. 25. for χθαμαλὴ is low, and depressed, but πανυπεοͅτάτη expresses great height, as he describes it in other passages, calling it Cranae, (or rugged,) and the road leading from the harbour, as, a rocky way through a woody spot,Od. xiv. l.Od. xiv. l. and again, for there is not any island in the sea exposed to the western sun,εὺδείελος is the reading of the text, but the reading in Homer is ἱππήλατος, adapted for horses, and thus translated by Horace, Epist. lib. I. vii. 41, Non est aptus equis Ithacae locus. and with good pastures, least of all Ithaca.Od. iv. 607.
