V. PAPAVEK RHOEAS. 99 



quickly," from pea), (rheo) in the sense of shedding.* And 

 this indeed it does, first calyx, then corolla ; you may 

 translate it 'swiftly ruinous' poppy, but notice, in con- 

 nection with this idea, how it droops its head before bloom- 

 ing ; an action which, I doubt not, mingled in Homer's 

 thought with the image of its depression when filled by 

 rain, in the passage of the Iliad, which, as I have relieved 

 your memory of three unnecessary names of poppy fami- 

 lies, you have memory to spare for learning. 



u fi^Kcav 5* &s Tpy(T6 Kaptj $d.\V, ^T' eVl /c^iry 



" And as a poppy lets its head fall aside, which in a 

 garden is loaded with its fruit, and with the soft rains of 

 spring, so the youth drooped his head on one side ; bur- 

 dened with the helmet." 



And now you shall compare the translations of this pas- 

 sage, with its context, by Chapman and Pope (or the 

 school of Pope), the one being by a man of pare English 

 temper, and able therefore to understand pure Greek tem- 

 per ; the other infected with all the faults of the falsely 

 classical school of the Renaissance. 



First I take Chapman : 



" His shaft emit fair Gorgythion. of Priam's princely race 

 Who in J3pina was brought forth, a famous town in Thrace, 



* It is also used sometimes of the garden poppy, says Dioscorides, 

 4 5t& rb few <? auT7?s rbj> bir6v " u because the sap, opium, flows from it." 



