The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original — Page 2

争议的要点如下：

The points in question are:

（1）《奥德赛》完全写于现今西西里岛西海岸称为特拉帕尼的地方，其素材也全部取自该地，无论是费阿刻斯人的场景还是伊萨卡的场景皆然；而尤利西斯的航行，一旦他进入西西里岛可轻易抵达的范围，便可解读为环绕该岛的航行，实际上是从特拉帕尼出发，经由利帕里群岛、墨西拿海峡和潘泰莱里亚岛，再回到特拉帕尼。

that the "Odyssey" was written entirely at, and drawn entirely from, the place now called Trapani on the West Coast of Sicily, alike as regards the Phaeacian and the Ithaca scenes; while the voyages of Ulysses, when once he is within easy reach of Sicily, solve themselves into a periplus of the island, practically from Trapani back to Trapani, via the Lipari islands, the Straits of Messina, and the island of Pantellaria.

（2）这首诗完全由一位非常年轻的女性所写，她居住在现今称为特拉帕尼的地方，并以瑙西卡的名字将自己引入了作品之中。

That the poem was entirely written by a very young woman, who lived at the place now called Trapani, and introduced herself into her work under the name of Nausicaa.

我用以支持这些颇为惊人的第一项论点的主要论据，自1892年1月30日和2月20日刊登于《雅典娜神庙》杂志（且未受任何反驳）以来，已多次显著地呈现在英国和意大利公众面前。

The main arguments on which I base the first of these somewhat startling contentions, have been prominently and repeatedly before the English and Italian public ever since they appeared (without rejoinder) in the "Athenaeum" for January 30 and February 20, 1892.

两项论点均在同年大斋节学期和十月学期的约翰学院《鹰》刊上提出（同样未受任何反驳）。

Both contentions were urged (also without rejoinder) in the Johnian "Eagle" for the Lent and October terms of the same year.

迄今为止，没有任何值得我回应的意见从任何方面传达给我，而我深知自己是多么殷切地努力去了解论据中是否存在任何漏洞，因此我开始对以下一点感到有些信心：倘若此类漏洞存在，我至少应该在此之前已听闻其中一些了。

Nothing to which I should reply has reached me from any quarter, and knowing how anxiously I have endeavoured to learn the existence of any flaws in my argument, I begin to feel some confidence that, did such flaws exist, I should have heard, at any rate about some of them, before now.