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[103] ἐπεί. The Schol. remarks “οὐκ ἀποδίδωσι τὸ ἐπεί. καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ Μενελάου ‘ὦ φίλ᾽ ἐπεὶ τόσα εἶπες”’ ( Od.4. 204). ‘“Ομηρικὸν δὲ τὸ ἔθος”. Eustath. suggests that the apodosis may be found either at “τίς κεν ἔπειτα” (113), or even at “οὐδ᾽ εἰ πεντάετες” (115). But the form of the sentence is forgotten by the speaker in the crowd of details that come thronging into his mind. For similar incomplete constructions cp. Od.1. 231; 4.204; 6.187; 8. 236; etc. The virtual apodosis is the answer (120) to Telemachus’ question.

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

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