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[14] “οἷ τεύξειν κτλ.” ‘would make for himself an evil death and black fate,’ i.e. would do what could only mean his own death. All the commentators refer οἷ to the τίς of l. 12: ‘who would think that in the midst of a banquet one man amongst so many, even were he very strong, would bring death upon him?’ But the pronoun οἷ must have a strictly reflexive sense (= “ἑαυτῷ”), referring to the subject of τεύξειν. And this agrees with the general sense required, which is not to ask who would say ‘he is going to kill me,’ but whether any one would expect him to fight with all the company at once.

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

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