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[40] οὐτάμενοι. See on Od. 4.807. Aristarchus and Herodian both decide in favour of the proparoxytone accent, considering the form to be the present participle of the passive. Cp. Et. Mag. 46. 4 “τὸ δὲ οὐτάμενος καὶ ἐληλάμενος ὁ Ἡρωδιανὸς οὔ φησι κατὰ πάθος γίγνεσθαι προπαροξύτονα ἀπὸ τοῦ οὐτασμένος καὶ ἐληλασμένος, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐς μ_ι_ τῶν τε οὔτημι καὶ ἐλήλημι. εἰσὶ δὲ ἐνεστῶτες” (present), “ὡς ἵστημι, ἵσταμαι, ἱστάμενος”. Pamphilus is said to have written these words paroxytone, as if perfect passive participles syncopated. But “οὐτάμενοι” is better described as a participle of the non-thematic aorist of the middle voice with passive signification: similar forms being the infinitives “οὐτάμεν” Il.5. 132, and “οὐτάμεναι” Od.9. 301; 19.419. οὐτάμενοι is thus parallel to “κατακτάμενος” Od.16. 106; compare “ἔκτα” Od.1. 300, and “κτάμεναι” Od.10. 295.Such aorist participles have almost a purely adjectival force, as “φθίμενος” Il.8. 359, “ἀλιτήμενος” Od.4. 807, “ὀνήμενος” Od.2. 33, “ἐυκτίμενος” Il.2. 501, etc.

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

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