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[72] ἔρρε, as Schol. P. “μετὰ φθορᾶς ἀναχώρει”. The force of θᾶσσον is ‘as speedily as possible;’ i. e. literally, ‘more quickly’ than your present mood seems to imply.

ἐλέγχιστος is used here and in Il.2. 285; 17.26. It is matter of uncertainty whether the positive “ἐλεγχής” really exists. In Il.4. 242 we find “Ἀργεῖοι ἰόμωροι, ἐλεγχέες, οὔ νυ σέβεσθε;” and in 24. 239 “ἔρρετε, λωβητῆρες, ἐλεγχέες, οὔ νυ καί” , etc., in both which passages Ahrens, with La Roche, would write “ἐλέγχεα”, as in Il.2. 235; regarding the word “ἐλεγχέες” as an invention of Aristarchus. In Il.5. 787; 8. 228, Aristarchus is said to have written “κάκ᾽ ἐλεγχέες” (or “κακελεγχέες” MSS.) as a needless attempt to avoid a non-existent hiatus in “κάκ᾽ ἐλέγχεα ϝεῖδος ἄριστοι”.

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

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