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[452] ἡ δ᾽ ἐμή seems to be intentionally separated from ἄκοιτις to produce a sort of painful emphasis. She not only gave him no loving welcome, but did not suffer him even to have his joy in meeting with his son (“οὐδέ περ υἷος”).

The Scholion on this line in the Harl. MS, which is rather to be referred to vv. 454-456 (see crit. note), is evidently the expression of a feeling that, after such praise of Penelope, Agamemnon cannot consistently recommend Odysseus to be so suspicious of her.

With υἷος ἐνιπλησθῆναι … ὀφθαλμοῖσιν cp. Eur. Hipp.1328“πληροῦσα θυμόν”, Catull. 64. 220 ‘Lumina sunt gnati cara saturata figura.’

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

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