[191] “ἄγνωστον κτλ.” The meaning is, not that the mist was to make Ulysses invisible, but that Athene wished to prepare him for the work before him by consultation, and by changing his appearance, as she does in ll. 429-438. Evidently “ἄγνωστον τεύξειεν” here refers to the same process as “ἄγνωστον τεύξω” in l. 397. If Athene had not taken these measures, Ulysses would have gone straight to his palace, and all would have been lost. Chronologically the conversation (“ἕκαστά τε μυθήσαιτο”) comes before the change: so that there is a prothysteron, due to the tendency to put the more definite act first.
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