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[53] Cf. Od. 6.163, where Odysseus compares Nausikaa to a “φοίνικος νέον ἔρνος”, and Swinburne's ‘Thy tender body as a tree Whereon cool wind hath always blown, Till the clean branches be well grown.’ Hehn, who — on very weak grounds — holds that the wild olive alone was known in early Homeric days, sees in this mention of cultivation proof of the lateness of the passage.

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

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