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παρεποίησε: he ‘introduced an inconsistent digression’; in this sense the verb is a ἅπαξ λεγόμενον.

ἀνεπόδισε, ‘he never corrected himself’; lit. ‘cause to step back’; this passage indicates clearly H.'s implicit belief in Homer.

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