W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), Book 3 (γ）, line 287

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

Greek and Roman Materials

View text chunked by:

book : line

[287] Μαλειάων ὄρος. The name of this promontory, the southeast point of Laconia, now Cape Malia, or Angelo St., was written in various ways: e.g. “Μαλέα”（“η”) Hdt.4. 179, “Μαλέαι” Hdt.1. 82, “Μάλειαι”, as here, and Hom. Od.19. 187, and “Μάλεια” Hom. Od.9. 80.The dangers in the neighbourhood of this Cape from storms and currents are graphically described in Hom. Od.4. 514 foll.; and Eustath. quotes as a proverbial saying, “Μαλέας δὲ κάμψας ἐπιλάθου τῶν οἴκαδε”.

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

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar:

W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886)

This text is part of:

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents: