W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), Book 3 (γ）, line 117

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[117] πρίν κεν … ἵκοιο. Instead of saying what would have satisfied the meaning—‘long ere that, thou wouldest for very impatience set off home’—he substitutes the more vivid ‘thou wouldest reach home;’ implying that his impatience to get away would be so strong, that it would not subside till it landed him in Ithaca. As we might say, ‘You would be off at once, and never stop till you got home.’ Cp. Il.2. 291.

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

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