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652 r 652 Ogyges. is in personal attractions to Calypso (ibid. 2l6). To the poet of the Odyssey therefore the names of Ogygia and Calypso can scarcely have suggested the notion of darkness, or at least he did not intend they should do so to others. Still it may be conceived that, in the work of some elder poet, Ogygia had really been used to signify the dark island, and that Calypso was an invisible goddess, but that Homer, while he retained the names, transported the place and the person into the light of day. What it was that procured the name Qyvyiov for the mountain mentioned by the writer of whom Apollodofus spoke^ in illustrating the ignorance of geography and the tendency to fable which he found in authors later than Homer, we can now no more ascertain than the position in which it was placed : but it may have stood very close to the abode of the Gorgons and the Hesperides, without being wrapped in darkness : neither in this case nor in the other have we anything more than a bare possibility that the name Ogygian may once have been equivalent to dark. As little can we safely determine from a single feature in the legend of Gyges, what the one was to which he was indebted for his name. The son of Ovpavo^ and r^ mentioned in the Theogony was probably not Tvyri^y but Tvr}^^ MembrOy as Hermann translates the name in his disserta- tion de Mythol. Graec. ,antiq. (Opusc. ii. p. 176.) referring to Bentley'^s note on Horace Carm. 11. xvii. 14. which shews the necessity of the emendation. Muretus (Var. Lect. vi. 13.) found Tvrj^ in several manuscripts of Hesiod, which he describes A great step however would be taken toward deter- mining the primitive meaning of the word wyvyio^^ if it could be shewn to have been used in the sense of dark by ^schylus and Pindar; for we could hardly hesitate to con- sider this as earlier than the other of ancieQit^ which is com- monly supposed to be the only one found at least in the poets after Homer. And it must be admitted that in the passage which J. K. cites from the Eumenides 1039, where the Furies i^^re invited to go *yw f tto KevOeaiv ooyvycoKTh the sense of dark is very applicable ; but whether it is the only one that suits the context, or does so better than any other, remains to be seen. The same epithet is applied to the woody mountains pf Phlius by Pindar Nem. vi. acTKiois ^Xiovi^ro^ vtt ooyvyioL^
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