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[609] ἀμφὶ περί, for this combination cp. Il.2. 305; 8.348; 17.760; 21. 10; 23. 191; Od.8. 175.It does not seem possible to discriminate between the force of the two words; though περί should add completion to the less complete sense of ἀμφί. The English use of ‘round about’ is near enough for translation. There is no reason for writing both words in one (“ἀμφιπερί”), as Bekker. Transl. ‘And his terrible baldric round about his breast was a strap of gold, whereon were wrought marvellous devices, bears and wild boars and brighteyed lions, and battles and fights, and bloodshed and slayings of men.’ ἀορτήρ (“ἀείρω”) and τελαμών (“τλῆναι”) both signify the ‘upholders’ or ‘carriers,’ but the position of the words suggests that “τελαμών” is here used as the more specific of the two.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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