[259] πόρους ἁλὸς ἐξερεείνων, cp. Od.4. 337.
265, 266. μυκηθμοῦ … βληχήν. With this variation of case Nitzsch compares “τίνων γόων ἤκουσα καὶ στέρνων κτύπον” “νεκρῶν τε θρήνους”; Eurip. Suppl.87, “οὐδεὶς θεῶν ἐνοπὰς κλύει τᾶς δυσδαίμονος, οὐ παλαιῶν πατρὸς σφαγιασμῷν” Soph. Elect.197.αὐλιζομενάων, ‘being housed for the night.’ It was now evening, cp. inf. 283. The cattle are penned in a yard (“αὐλή”), Od.14. 412.