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[166] Ἀχαιίδος, sc. “γῆς”, so “Τροίης” Od.10. 332.Not only has he not been home, but he has not even been near Achaea.

ἁμῆς, ‘our’ land; i. e. ‘thine and mine,’ for he is speaking to his mother. Most modern editors write “ἁμός” with the rough breathing, following the rule of Apollon. de pron. There seems to have been much uncertainty about the word, whether it stood for “ἡμέτερος” or “ἐμός”. In Il.6. 414Andromache laments the death of “πατέρ᾽ ἁμόν”, which might seem to support the latter view; but in v. 421 foll. she mentions her brothers as included in the slaughter. Herodian remarks on the passage, “Δημήτριός φησιν ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐμόν, διὸ καὶ ἄντικρυς ψιλοῖ: πιθανώτερον δέ ἐστι Δωρικώτερον εἶναι ἀντὶ τοῦ ἡμέτερον ἁμόν, οὕτως Ἀπολλώνιος”. We have “ὑμός” as the corresponding form of the 2nd pers., as “πόλιν ὑμήν” Il.5. 489.

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

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