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[130] That λῖτα is an accusative singular seems settled by the use of “λιτί” as the dative, Il.18. 352; both cases must be referred to a nom. “λίς”, cp. “λὶς πέτρη” Od.12. 64; though Eustath. ad loc. takes it as a metaplastic accusative from a nominative “λιτόν”. Nitzsch follows the interpretation of F. A. Wolf (Analect. 4. 501), taking the word as an accusative plural from an old neuter “λί” = “λισσόν”. Cp. Thucyd. 2. 97 “ὅσα ὑφαντά τε καὶ λεῖα”, i. e. unembroidered. Whichever interpretation we adopt it will be better to take the words “ὑπὸ— πετάσσας” as parenthetical, so that the two adjectives “καλὸν δαιδάλεον” should go with “θρόνον”, to which they are appropriate. With the same stem (“λι_τ”) are connected Lat. glitus, and Gk. “γλοιός, γλίσχρος”. See Curtius, Gk. Etym. 330.

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

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