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[635] Ἤλιδα. Ithaca (v. 605) was unsuitable for breeding horses or mules, so Noëmon had a paddock in Elis. But the use of mules (compare the word “οὐρεύς” = montanus) was peculiarly appropriate to such a country as Ithaca.

εὐρύχορον is explained by the Schol. as a metrical variety for “εὐρύχωρον”. Others, as Döderl., refer it better to “χοροί”, and render, ‘with broad dancinglawns,’ i. e. level.

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

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