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[140] ἔνδον, sc. “ἐστί”: ‘the arms are in their place: Ulysses and his son have not put them elsewhere.’ Commentators generally take ἔνδον with κατθέσθην: ‘Ulysses and his son have put the arms therein and nowhere else’ (referring to 19. 1-50). But, as Kirchhoff shows (Odyssee, p. 581), “ἔνδον” would not be put for “ἐνταῦθα”. It means ‘inside’ (not outside), ‘at home,’ ‘in their regular place.’ Hence there need be no reference to 19. 1-50: indeed the removal of the arms there described (cp. 16. 281-298) is probably an interpolation due to the present passage.

ἔνδον is derived by Brugmann (Gr. Gr. p. 229) from the Indo-germanic root-noun dom or dem ‘house,’ of which we have the original Nom. dōm in Homeric “δῶ”, the Gen. dems in “δεσπότης” (for dems-potis), the Locative (without suffix) in dom, whence Greek “ἔν-δον”: also the short form dṃ in “δά-πεδον”. The association of “ἔνδον” with the adverbs in “-δον” would aid the retention of the form as an adverb.

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

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