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[152] ἀμφικαλύψαι is rather far from the governing verb, “ἐθέλω” in l. 149. It seems from the scholia that there was an ancient variant, probably the fut. indic. “ἀμφικαλύψω”.

154-158. The infinitives θεῖναι and ἀμφικαλύψαι are construed as an epexegesis of δοκεῖ εἶναι ἄριστα, so that there is no grammatical apodosis to “ὡς μέν”: ‘as seems best to me, viz. to turn their ship into stone, &c. (so I say).’

A small island near the entrance of the old harbour of Corfu is pointed out as the Phaeacian ship, and perhaps is sufficiently ‘like a swift ship’ to have give rise to the story ( N. H. iv. 53). It is not, however, the only claimant. ‘A rock outside the harbour of Trapani (in Sicily) is said to have been a Turkish war vessel, turned into stone by the Madonna’ (Mr. Lang A. in Longman's Magazine, Jan. 1898, quoting Mr. Butler's Authoress of the Odyssey).

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

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