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[8] κατὰ … ἤσθιον. On the distinction between the adverbial use of prepositions with verbs, and the separation, called by grammarians Tmesis, see Curtius, Greek Grammar Explained, p. 201; Hoffmann, Die Tmesis in der Ilias; Monro, H. G. §§ 175, 176.

Ὑπερίονος. Hesiod, Theog. 374, makes “Ἠέλιος” the son of “Ὑπερίων”, and (v. 1011) calls him “Ἠ. Ὑπεριονίδης”. So Od. 12. 176 we have “Ὑπεριονίδαο ἄνακτος”. But this does not prove that “Ὑπερίων” is a shortened form for “Ὑπεριονίων”, as Eustathius holds; for even the form “Ὑπεριονίδης” is not necessarily a patronymic, as we find, cp. Eustath., “Ἡρακλείδης” for “Ἡρακλῆς, Σιμιχίδης” for “Σίμιχος” (Lobeck, Aj. 190). Cp. also the form “Οἰδιπόδης”. Nitzsch regards “Ὑπεριονίδης” as non Homeric, holding Od. 12. 176 to be spurious: he leans to the view that “Ὑπερίων” is a quasi-patronymic for “ὕπερος” = child of the height [of heaven]; like “οὐρανίωνες”, for which Euripides (Phoeniss. 823) writes “οὐρανίδαι”, meaning only caelicolae. See by all means Lobeck's note on “ἁλιαδᾶν” Ajax 880.

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

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    • Euripides, Phoenician Women, 823
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