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[161] νηί τε καὶ ἑτάροισι. This is not an omission of “σύν”, but a regular dative of the instrument, the ship and the rowers being the means by which one comes on one's journey. Nitzsch would prefer to read “νηί τε σύν θ᾽ ἑτάροισι”, but “ἑτάροισι” is drawn into the same construction as “νηί”, and, indeed, we have an instrumental dative of the person in Il.21. 45“ἕνδεκα δ᾽ ἤματα θυμὸν ἐτέρπετο οἷσι φίλοισι”, compared with “φρένα τερπόμενον φόρμιγγι λιγείῃ” Il.9. 186.Cp. also Od.4. 8“ἵπποισι καὶ ἅρμασι πέμπε νέεσθαι”, and note on Od. 10.140.

Join ἀλώμενος with πολὺν χρόνον, as Virg. Aen.6. 532‘pelagine venis erroribus actus?’

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

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