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[209] ῥέζεσκον ‘have been accustomed to do,’ impf. as in l. 46 (supra). The word is regularly used of doing sacrifice, and possibly the double meaning is intentional, Ulysses guessing that it is Athene in the shape of Mentor.

ὁμηλικίη is properly collective, but here=‘one of the body of my comrades,’ cp. 3. 49., 6. 23. So “δῆμος” in Il.12. 213δῆμον ἐόντα παρὲξ ἀγορευέμεν”.

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