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[363] So in Od. 3.180 the voyage from Tenedos to Argos takes four days. Paley quotes Theokr. xiii. 29, where three days are spent in going from Phthia to the Hellespont. The distance is little over 200 English miles in a straight line, and Lemnos and Peparethos lie conveniently for shelter at night; so that five miles an hour for fourteen hours a day would cover the distance. Even Homeric ships could probably manage this with a fair wind.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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