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[344] ἀπὸ σκοποῦ. In Homer “σκοπός” is generally used of a ‘watcher’ or ‘spy;’ but in Od.22. 6 of a mark at which an archer shoots; and this must be the meaning to be assigned to it here, viz. ‘wide of the mark.’ So “ἀπὸ σκοποῦ εἰρηκέναι, εἰρῆσθαι” Plat. Theaet.179C, Pl. Symp.2. 10, and “παρὰ σκοπόν” Pind. O.13. 94.

ἀπὸ δόξης is interpreted by the Schol. as “οὐκ ἄποθεν ἧς ἔχομεν περὶ τοὺς ξένους διαθέσεως”, i. e. not at variance with our own ideas; Eustath. takes it to mean, ‘not at variance with our expectation’ of what she would do; “ὑπολαμβάνοντες ὅτι δηλαδὴ εὖ περὶ τοὺς ξένους διάκειται”. The latter meaning of ‘what one expects’ seems settled by Il.10. 324“σοὶ δ᾽ ἐγὼ οὐχ ἅλιος σκοπὸς ἔσσομαι, οὐδ᾽ ἀπὸ δόξης”. In later Greek the phrase reappears in the form “παρὰ δόξαν”.

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

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    • Homer, Iliad, 10.324
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