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[270] ἐνήνοθεν is the reading of Aristarchus, but the MSS. generally have ἀνήνοθεν. It is difficult to believe that these are distinct words, as Buttmann and most scholars have held. The form “ἀνήνοθεν” can be explained as the regular perfect from the root “ἀνεθ-, ἀνθ-”, which means ‘to rise or spring from,’ ‘appear on the surface’; and this meaning suits all the Homeric uses. But no similar account of “ἐνήνοθεν” can be given. So far, therefore, “ἀνήνοθεν” has the better claim to a place in the Homeric text. The supposed connexion with “ἀνά” or “ἐνί” takes us into extremely speculative ground.

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

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