[113] οὖλα: Gemoll's “αὖα” (from the similar passage Hom. Od. 18.308) cannot be accepted; “οὖλα” is sound, though the meaning is not certain. The Homeric sense of “ϝοῦλος” is “close,” “thick,” but it is applied to wool or hair only. In later Greek the word has a wider extension, of plants or trees (see L. and S.). Here it might be roughly equivalent to “ἐπηετανά”, “in thick bundles,” or possibly “bushy,” with leaves, twigs, and all. Ebeling, however, is probably right in connecting with “ὅλος´” (for “οὖλος” in this sense cf. Hom. Od. 17.343, Hom. Od. 24.118 and infra 137), i.e. “whole” branches; so Meyer (Griech. Et. s.v. “ὅλος” i.e. “ὄλϝος”).
ἐπηετανά: with synizesis, as in Hes. Op. 607, Orph. “Ἐργ. και Ἥμ.” 11, 10, Maximus 465; cf. “βασιλῆες” Hes. Op. 263, “τοκῆες” h. Dem. 137. The word has open vowels in 61.This text is part of:
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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