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[70] Πολύφημον, the accusative attracted to the case of the “ὅν” preceding.

ὅου. Curtius seems right in describing this form as only an incorrect way of writing “ὅο”. It only occurs twice, here and in Il.2. 325“ὅου κράτος, ὅου κλέος”. He describes “ὅο” as an intermediate form of the genitive between “-οιο” and “-ου”. On the same view Ahrens would write “Αἰόλοο” Od.10. 36, 60. Cp. Il.2. 518; 15. 66, 554; 22. 313; Od. 14. 239. Cp. Monro, H. G. § 98; and Curt. Explan. Gk. Gram. p. 64.

ἐστί. Bekker's “ἔσκε” rests on slight authority. The tense would either mean that the Cyclops was dead or had lost the might he once had.

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

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