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[243] ἀταρτηρέ may represent a reduplication of the stem “ταρ”, as in “ταράσσω”, to be referred to root “τερ” (“τείρω”, tero) meaning to ‘wear out’ or ‘rub away:’ “ἀ-ταρ-τηρ-ός” according to this derivation would mean something like what we call ‘irrepressible.’ The older commentators regarded it as a lengthened form of an adjective “ἀτηρός” from “ἄτη”.

ἠλεός must be referred to a root “ἀλ”, seen in “ἄλη, ἀλᾶσθαι, ἀλύειν, ἀλιταίνειν”. In Il.15. 128 the form “ἠλέ” occurs.

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

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