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[39] καθαπτόμενος. This expression implies a certain degree of earnestness or animation, but not necessarily of roughness. So we find it used of an urgent though submissive appeal, “μαλακοῖσι καθαπτόμενος ἐπέεσσι” Od.10. 70; see infra 240. It expresses also an angry retort, “ἀντιβίοις καθ. ἐπέεσσι” Od.18. 415.Here “γέροντα” seems to be governed both by the participle and the verb, ‘pointing his speech to the chief he addressed him.’

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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