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This place suffers different construction in all the Commentors; in which all err from the mind of the Poet, as in a hundred other places (which yet I want time to approve) especially about …, &c. Prope enim noctis et diei sunt viæ (or similiter, which … signifies) which they will have to be understood, that the days in that region are long, and the nights short; where Homer intends, that the equinoctial is there; for how else is the course of day and night near or equal? But therefore the night’s-man hath his double hire, being as long about his charge as the other; and the night being more dangerous, &c. And if the day were so long, why should the night’s-man be preferred in wages?–CHAPMAN.