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[148] ἕως μέν, ‘for a while.’ So in Il.12. 141; 13.143; 15.277; 17. 727, 730; Od.3. 126, with which we may compare the use of “ὅς” in the sense of “οὗτος”, and, generally, the forms of the relative with the force of the demonstrative. Others explain “ἕως μέν” as a protasis with an unexpressed apodosis, which seems less likely. Cp. Hdt.8. 74“ἕως μὲν δὴ ἀνὴρ ἀνδρὶ παραστὰς σιγῇ λόγον ἐποιέετο, τέλος δέ, κ.τ.λ.”, where Bekk. reads “τέως μέν”.

μετὰ πνοιῇς. The preposition from its meaning ‘among’ passes easily to that of ‘accompanying.’ In Od.1. 98 the phrase is “ἅμα πνοιῇς”. Compare Virgil's “rapido pariter cum flamine” Aen.4. 241.

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

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