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[196] It is impossible to explain οὐδός as the Ionic form, only found here, of “ὁδός”. In all similar cases (“κοῦρος” and “κόρος, ξεῖνος” and “ξένος”, &c.) the long form is the regular Homeric form. The word must surely be the same as “οὐδός” ‘threshold.’ Probably, when applied to a road, it had the meaning ‘roadway,’ agger viae. See however Schulze, Quaest. Ep. p. 435.

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