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[290] ἐλάσειε represents a sort of ‘oratio obliqua’ implied in the former clause,=‘nisi abegisset.’

βίης Ἰφικληείης, cp. Od.2. 409.Iphiclus or Iphicles was son of Phylacus, living in Phylace on Mount Othrys in the Thessalian Phthiotis. Phylacus seems to have stolen these kine from Tyro, mother of Neleus (v. 235); and Iphiclus was now keeping them guarded by savage herdsmen, and, as later legends added, by a furious watch-dog. The story of the imprisonment of Melampus may have come from the ideas suggested by the words “Φύλακος” and “Φυλάκη”.

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

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