Pound related that he found a copy of Divus’s translation of the Odyssey at a bookstall in Paris in the early part of the 20th century. IIRC that translation dates from the 1500s, but I’m not positive about that date.
Pound’s first Canto is a fair translation of Divus’s translation, done in a style reminiscent of the Anglo-Saxon poem, The Seafarer
Also, as for search options on past thread topics, what do you thing of my proposal:
http://discourse.textkit.com/t/suggestion/7649/1
Yes, I like the Catalog idea. Not much response to it though. 
A forum search function would still be a Very Good Thing, IMO.