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[770] ἠεροειδές: an adj. almost confined to the Od., especially as an epithet of the sea; sometimes of “ἄντρον” or “σπέος”, and once of “πέτρη,” Od. 12.233, where it clearly means ‘the rock so distant as to be like mist.’ When used of the sea it seems to express the vague colour of the distant water, which the haze of distance almost melts into the semblance of the sky. So here, ‘so far as a man sees in the haze of distance,’ i.e. up to the utmost limit of human vision. As to construction, it is simplest to regard the acc. as adverbial, ‘as far as a man has misty vision.’

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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