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ἁμόθεν γε. It is left to the muse to decide at what point the minstrel shall take up the story. Cp. Od.8. 500“ἔνθεν ἑλὼν ὡς, κ. τ. λ.” Translate—‘from any point thou wilt.’ With “ἁμόθεν” cp. “οὐδαμοῦ, ἁμῶς, ἁμῇ”. Curtius, s. v., compares the Gothic sums = any one.

καὶ ἡμῖν, sc. that we—the poet and his audience—may know as well as thou; “ὑμεῖς γὰρ [Μοῦσαι] θεαί ἐστε, πάρεστέ τε, ἴστε τε πάντα” Il.2. 485, or, that we may be told, as thou hast told others: cp. Ar. Nub.357“οὐρανομήκη ῥήξατε κἀμοὶ φωνὴν ὦ παμβασίλειαι”. Aristarchus considers the “καί” superfluous, and so the Schol. on Theocr. 4 54 “ὁ” KAI “περισσὸς ὥσπερ καὶ παρὰ Ὁμήρῳ. ‘τῶν ἁμόθεν γε, θεὰ, θύγατερ Διὸς, εἰπὲ καὶ ἡμῖν”.’

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

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