"Since nothing else is more shameless and wretched than woman,"
Homer plainly says:--
"Since nothing else is more dreadful and shameless than a woman." [3198]
And Musaeus having written:--
"Since art is greatly superior to strength,"--
Homer says:--
"By art rather than strength is the woodcutter greatly superior." [3199]
Again, Musaeus having composed the lines:--
"And as the fruitful field produceth leaves,
And on the ash trees some fade, others grow,
So whirls the race of man its leaf," [3200] --
[3198] Odyss., xi. 427.
[3199] Homer, Iliad, xxiii. 315: meg' ameinon is found in the Iliad as in Musaeus. In the text occurs instead periginetai, which is taken from line 318.
"By art rather than strength is the woodcutter greatly superior;
By art the helmsman on the dark sea
Guides the swift ship when driven by winds;
By art one charioteer excels (periginetai) another. Iliad, xxiii. 315-318.
[3200] phullon, for which Sylburg, suggests phulon.
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