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[132] πόλλ᾽ ἀποτίνειν. The ‘heavy restitution’ which Telemachus would have to make to Icarius cannot mean paying back the “ἕδνα” which came with Penelope, when she married Odysseus, “ὅσσα ἔοικε φίλης ἐπὶ παιδ ς ἕπεσθαι”. See note on Od. 1.277, where this interpretation is combated. We must refer it generally to some act of vengeance on the part of Icarius for the slight put upon his daughter. Eustath. says that this way of rendering the sentence “σμικρολογίας αἰτίαμα προσάπτει τῷ Τηλεμάχῳ”, in the judgment of “οἱ παλαιοί, διὸ καὶ θέλουσιν οἱ τοιοῦτοι στίζειν τελείαν” (to put a full stop) “ἐν τῷ πόλλ᾽ ἀποτίνειν”, so as to join “Ἰκαρίῳ ἀποπέμψω”.

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

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