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Ἀμφιτρίτης. Hermann fancifully translates this title by a Latin equivalent Amfractua, as a graphic description of coastline; by others it is connected with “τρίω, τρίζω”, as referring to the sea that moans round the shores; we may certainly compare the words “Τρίτων” and “Τριτογένεια” with “Ἀμφιτρίτη”, see inf. 378. So far as Amphitrite is personified in Homer, she is the representative of the sea itself rather than a goddess, as she appears in later legend. Cp. Od.5. 422; 12. 60, 97, and Dissen on Pind. Ol.6. 105, “‘omnino Amphitrite magna dea vulgo ipsius maris personam gerens, unde κύματα Ἀ. dicuntur (Hom. Od.3. 91) non Ποσειδάωνος, eademque dictur κήτεα maris alere, quod non tribuitur Ποσειδάωνι.’”

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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