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[435] With ἑκὰς εἶχον compare “ὑψόσ᾽ ἔχοντες Od.19. 38.The long vowel in ἀπήωροι is seen in “ἄωρτο, αἰώρα, αἰωρεῖν”. Bothe would write “ἀπηόριοι”, cp. Byz. Antiphil. (Anth. Pal. 9.71) “κλῶνες ἀπηόριοι”.

439-441. The objection raised against these three lines is that they are contradictory to what is said about the hours of the ebb and flow in the whirlpool. Odysseus appears to have reached Charybdis at sunrise (429), but not till evening did his timbers come up from the gulf. To this it may be added that ἦμος δέ in Homer always stands at the beginning of a verse. The time denoted is towards evening, when a judge may be supposed to have got through his cases, and when the market-place begins to empty. Cp. “μέχρι οὗ ἀγορῆς διαλύσιοςHdt.3. 104.

ἀνέστη here is aorist of custom. For κρίνων, where we might naturally expect “κρίνας”, cp. sup. 400 “ἐπαύσατο θύων”, Od.13. 187ἔγρετο εὕδων”.

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