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[203] τῶν must not be closely joined with δεισάντων, according to the use of the article with the participle in Attic Greek. It is the demonstrative= ‘illorum,’ depending directly upon χερῶν, and δεισάντων follows as a causal addition, giving the reason for the fall of the oars; ‘and from their hands, in their terror, away flew the oars and fell splash on the stream.’ Cp. “κατὰ κῦμα” Od.2. 429.The oars hung at the “σκαλμοί” in the leathern loops (“τροποί” Od.4. 782), so that they did not fall overboard altogether, but dragged along at the ship's side.

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

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