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[202] μυθέαι ἀκράαντον, ‘which thou pratest to no purpose,’ i. e. because nothing will come of thy predictions. μυθέαι is a shorter form for “μυθέεαι”, the “ε” being dropped, as in “πώλεαι” Od.4. 811, q.v. Compare also “ἀποαίρεο” Il.1. 275, “ἔκλεο” Il.24. 202.Krüger ( Dial.§ 30. 3) compares also from Herodot. “ποιέαι, ποιέο, ἐποιέο”, though elsewhere in the same writer we find “δέεαι” (7. 161), “διαρέεαι” (7. 47). Compare also “ὑφάγεο” Theocr. 2. 101. In Od.8. 180 we find the form “μυθεῖαι”.

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

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