Re: Romans 1: 29 (correction

Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Thu, 11 Sep 1997 06:29:43 -0500

This really has nothing to do with the original question, but I hate to
leave what I know to be an error unconfessed and uncorrected. As Plato's
text shows often enough, it's sometimes a mistake to rely on memory when
citing Homer.

At 8:55 PM -0500 9/10/97, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

>strung together. In fact, this rather reminds me of a couple hexameter
>lines of reproaches flung out at the person addressed:
>
>The Muses to Hesiod: POIMENES AGRAULOI, KAK' ELEGXEA, GASTERES OION
> ("Hick herdsmen, foul contemptible things, merely bellies")
>
>and Achilles to Agamemnon: KERDALEON, KUNOS OMMAT' ECWN, KRADIHN D'ELAFOIO
> ("greedy, with eyes of a bitch and heart of a deer")

That should be: OINOBARES, KUNOS OMMAT' ECWN, KRADIHN D' ELAFOIO
("heavy with wine, with eyes of a bitch and heart of a deer")

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