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[461] Most MSS. have φίλως χαίροντες ἔπεμπον, which is intolerably harsh after καρπαλίμως. Possibly χαίροντες is a gloss on φίλως: cp. Il.4. 347νῦν δὲ φίλως χ᾽ ὁρόῳτε”, which is = “φίλον ἂν εἴη ὑμῖν ὁρᾶν”. Or it may be due to 17. 83 “χαίροντι φέρειν πρὸς δώματα χαίρων”. However this may be, the reading “φίλην ἐς πατρίδ᾽ ἔπεμπον”, given by the Laurentian (F) and other MSS., is free from objection, and has been adopted by Ludwich. The reading “φίλην χαίροντες” separates “φίλην” too far from the substantive (“Ἰθάκην”) which it qualifies.

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