"I want to emphasize how very difficult, on some level impossible, all the epithets in Homer are"

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A case I am struggling with today, for example: "polyrren"/ "polyarnos". Like "polytropos", it's a compound word: "much-lamb-y". It's a good thing, in the world of Homer, to be a person who owns lots of lambs. It's a potent, non-silly term of respect.

— Emily Wilson (@EmilyRCWilson) February 15, 2019