2. The use of the Cadmean name by Homer, compared with his departure from it, each having appropriate reference to the circumstances of different epochs, appears to be a marked example of a careful and historic manner of handling local names with reference to the exact circumstances of place, time, and persons, and not in the loose manner of later poetry. 3. Our whole view of Cadmus and the Cadmeans from Homer has been attained by circuitous inference: and, presuming it to be a just one, we have here a very singular example of the poet’s reticence with respect to all infusion of foreign blood and influence into his country. FOOTNOTES: [415] Od. xi. 260. [416] Od. xi. 568. [417] Od. iv. 564. [418] Il. ii. 824; and xii. 19. [419] Od. iii. 320-2; and xiv. 257. [420] Od. xiv. 231, 243-8. [421] Od. xiv. 237; Il. xiv. 321. [422] Od. i. 105; ii. 180. [423] Od. i. 183. [424] Od. xv. 425. [425] Od. xv. 415. [426] See Wood on Homer, p. 48. [427] Od. xvii. 383. [428] Nägelsbach, Homerische Theologie 80-3. [429] There were columns outside the doors, for example, of the palace of Ulysses in Ithaca. Od. xvii. 29. This construction of the metaphor would come nearly to the same point, by making it mean the doors of Ocean. [430] Hermann Opusc. vii. 253. Nägelsbach, ii. 9, note. [431] Blakesley’s Introduction to Herodotus, p. xiv. [432] Strabo iii. 2. 13, 14. pp. 149, 50. [433] Mure, Greek Literature, i. 510. [434] Il. xv. 630. xvii. 21. ii. 723. [435] Il. xxii. 15. [436] Il. iii. 365. [437] Od. xx. 201. [438] Il. xxiii. 439. [439] Od. i. 52 and x. 137. [440] Od. iv. 460. [441] Od. xvii. 248. [442] Od. iv. 410. [443] Od. x. 289. [444] As perhaps does Amphitrite, mentioned four times in the Odyssey, never in the Iliad. [445] I shall consider further the construction of Il. xiv. 321, as it bears on the connection of Minos with Phœnicia, in treating the subject of the Outer Geography. [446] Od. xv. 252, 3. [447] Od. x. 492. [448] Nägelsbach ii. 9. [449] See Studies on Religion, sect. iii. [450] I have given the accepted, and perhaps the more probable meaning; but the word is also well adapted to signify the _tidal_ Ocean. In the Mediterranean, as is well known, the tidal action is not perceived. [451] Thucyd. vi. 42, 44. [452] Od. xxiv. 304-8. [453] Od. xix. 172. [454] Od. xx. 383. [455] Od. xxiv. 211, 366, 389. [456] Il. ii. 857. Schönemann Geog. Hom. p. 31. [457] Od. xv. 426. [458] Cramer’s Italy, ii. pp. 354, 391. [459] Thucyd. vi. 2. [460] Dionys. i. 9. [461] Thuc. ibid. [462] Cramer’s Italy, ii. p. 2. [463] Od. xxiv. 309. [464] Od. xiv. 93. [465] Od. vi. 7-12. [466] Od. xiv. 293-359. [467] Od. xvi. 65. xvii. 525, and xix. 269-99. [468] Od. xvi. 424-30. [469] Od. xiv. 278-86. [470] Strabo vii. p. 324. [471] Herod. vii. 176. [472] Dion. Hal. i. 18. [473] Diod. Sic. v. 58. [474] Od. vi. 266. [475] 260-5. [476] See inf. sect. viii. [477] Od. xix. 522.