摘要：In a recent note in this journal1, Gerson Schade argues that the phrase l¤mnhw.dvr (Tr. 442), used by Cassandra in the course of her prediction of the trials await-ing Odysseus, should be taken as indicating the Stygia palus, and not 'the sea', as itis usually understood to mean. The whole expression kékfug n l¤mnhw .dvr, then,Schade maintains, would refer to Odysseus' successful negotiation of his Under-world experience, not to his 'escape' from the many dangers of the sea which heencountered on his way home to Ithaca.Schade emphasises that on all other occasions in which the word l¤mnh occursin tragic trimeters it means 'lake', and he suggests that the burden of proof lies withanyone who wishes to have it mean 'sea' in this passage. He also argues that his in-terpretation avoids what he regards in the usual reading as a blatant pleonasm, outof character with the sketchy narrative style of the passage as a whole, by which twoexpressions (kékfug n l¤mnhw .dvr, and mol n in line 443) would be used to referto Odysseus' homecoming
