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[54] καί οἱ κεχαρισμένος ἔλθοι. We might expect “καὶ ὅς οἱ”. It is common in Homeric syntax where two relatival clauses come together to omit the relative in the second clause, or to pass into a construction with the demonstrative. Compare “ἄνωχθι δέ μιν γαμέεσθαι

τῷ ὅτεῴ τε πατὴρ κέλεται καὶ ἁνδάνει αὐτῇ” inf. 113, “πάντας ὁρῶ . . οὕς κεν ἐὺ γνοίην καί τ᾽ οὔνομα μυθησαίμην Il.3. 235.Similar to this is the usage which introduces in the second clause the oblique case of a personal pronoun instead of repeating the relative pronoun that stands as subject to the first clause. Compare “εἴμ᾽ Ὀδυσεὺς Λαερτιάδης ὃς πᾶσι δόλοισιν
ἀνθρώποισι μέλω, καί μευ κλέος οὐρανὸν ἵκει Od.9. 19, “πέμψον δ᾽ οἰωνὸν ταχὺν ἄγγελον, ὅς τε σοὶ αὐτῷ
φίλτατος οἰωνῶν καί εὑ κράτος ἐστὶ μέγιστον Il.24. 310, “ὃς δέ κε Πάτροκλον . . Τρῶας ἐς ἱπποδάμους ἐρύσῃ, εἴξῃ δέ οἱ Αἴας Il.17. 229, “καὶ μὲν δυσμενέες καὶ ἀνάρσιοι, οἵ τ̓ ἐπὶ γαίης
ἀλλοτρίης βῶσιν καί σφι Ζεὺς ληΐδα δώῃ Od.14. 85, “ γὰρ ὀίομαι ἄνδρα χολωσέμεν ὃς μέγα πάντων
Ἀργείων κρατέει καί οἱ πείθονται Ἀχαιοί Il.1. 78.Cp. Herodot. 3. 31 “ἀδελφεὴ . . τῇ καὶ συνοίκεε, καὶ ἦν οἱ ἀπ̓ ἀμφοτέρων ἀδελφεή”. See Mayor's note on Juv.1. 157.

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