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[74] σὺν τεύχεσιν, cp. Soph. Aj.577“τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα τεύχη κοίν᾽ ἐμοὶ τεθάψεται”, Il.6. 418“μιν κατέκηε σὺν ἔντεσι δαιδαλέοισι”. See too Il.23. 171 foll., where not only the arms of the dead, but his costliest treasures are laid upon the funeral pile, the idea being that in this way the dead would be able to regain the use of them in another world. The mound was to be topped with the oar which Elpenor had used when alive, and being on the shore the mound would be visible to all who went by: who however must have been few indeed off the solitary coasts of the Aeaean isle. Nitzsch quotes an epitaph of Sappho (from Palat. Anthol. 7. 505) on Pelagon the fisherman: “τῷ γριπεῖ Πελάγωνι πατὴρ ἐπέθηκε Μενίσκος”

“κύρτον καὶ κώπαν, μνᾶμα κακοζοΐας”, and notices (from Aristot. Polit. 7. 3) a custom among the Iberians to plant on the grave of the dead man a row of spears equal in number to the foemen who had been slain by him.

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

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