Hom. Od. x. 387. Pope’s Version, 450.

This is a quotation from some lost play of Euripides, slightly altered, the line, as printed in the Variorum Edition, vol. vii., Mc. Trag. cxxx. is— ἀκόλαστα πάντα γίνεται, δούλων τέκνα.

There is a pun here which is untranslateable. The Greek is πλὴν ὅταν τόκος παρῇ, meaning usury, and also offspring or delivery.

Hom. Od. x. 335. Pope’s Version, 387.

Hom. Il. vi. 211. Pope’s Version, 254.

This is a quotation from the Hippolytus of Euripides, v. 424.

I doubt if the wit of these parodies will be appreciated by the modern reader. The lines of Homer, which they are intended to parody, are:— Ὦ μάκαρ Ατρεΐδη, μοιρηγενὲς, ὀλβιοδαίμων.—Il. 3, 182. ἠέ συ Πηλεΐδη, πάντων ἐκπαγλότατ’ ἀνδρῶν.—Il. v. 146. The first of which is translated by Pope:— Oh, blest Atrides, born of prosperous fate, Successful monarch of a mighty state! The Greek parody in the text is:— Ὦ πέπον Ἀρχύτα, ψαλληγενὲς, ὀλβιότυφε Τῆς ὑπάτης ἔριδος πάντων ἐμπειρότατ’ ἀνδρῶν.