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[128] δουροδόκης ἔντοσθεν. The interpretation of Eustath. seems simplest, that the “δουροδόκη” was “εἰς κίονα ἐγγεγλυμμένη”, as if the spearshafts rested in the flutings of the column; an interpretation which does not suit well with the epithet “ἐυξόου”. Rumpf, Aed. Hom. 1. 29, regards it as a rack against the wall in the space between two engaged columns at the entrance to the “μέγαρον”. This interpretation he prefers, because in Od.16. 40Telemachus gives up his spear and “ἔστησε φέρων πρὸς κίονα μακρήν” ( Od.17. 29) before he crosses the stone threshold at the entrance of the hall. For ἄλλα, meaning ‘besides,’ ‘as well,’ see on inf. 133.

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

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