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[402] δώμασιν οἷσιν. As Buttm. says (Lexil. p. 251 note) the choice between “σοῖσιν” and “οἷσιν” turns on a few passages; the question to be settled being whether “ὅς” (the possessive pronoun) is flexible enough to refer to first and second, as well as to third person. On the passage, Od.9. 28“οὐ γὰρ ἐγώ γε”

“ἧς γαίης δύναμαι γλυκερώτερον ἄλλο ἰδέσθαι”, the Schol. remarks, “οὐκ εἶπεν ἐμῆς ἵνα καθολικώτερος γένηται ὁ λόγος περὶ τῆς τῶν καθ᾽ ἕκαστον ἀνθρώπων πατρίδος”. In Il.19. 174“σὺ δὲ φρεσὶν ἧσιν ἰανθῇς”, Wolf writes “φρεσὶ σῇσι”, comparing it with the corresponding lines, Il.14. 221, 264; 16. 36; etc. The passage Od.13. 320“φρεσὶν ᾗσιν ἔχων δεδαϊγμένον ἦτορ”, where “ᾗσιν” must stand for “ἐμῇσιν”, has been rejected from very remote antiquity. But the present passage Wolf has left untouched, retaining “οἷσιν” as conveying the sense of ‘own.’ Eustath. also reads “οἷσιν”. In Hesiod. Opp. 381, we have “σοὶ δ᾽ εἰ πλούτου θυμὸς ἐέλδεται ἐν φρεσὶν ᾗσιν” in nearly all MSS., and Göttling retains it; but it is doubtful if the line is genuine. See an account of the whole question in Monro, H. G. § 255.

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

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