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[301] ὡς ὁ μέν. If we accent “ὣς” here, with most editions, the words which it introduces ought to be a resumption of what precedes (as in sup. 284), which they cannot exactly be. It is therefore reasonable to read “ὡς” (or even with Nitzsch “ἕως”) as forming a natural protasis to “τόφρα δέ”. Then the form of the sentence harmonises with the corresponding passage, Od.4. 90“εἷος ἐγὼ περὶ κεῖνα πολὺν βίοτον συναγείρων”

“ἠλώμην, τείως μοι ἀδελφεὸν ἄλλος ἔπεφνε”. The word “ἀγείρων” points (as Nitzsch observes) to getting presents, as Menelaus is said actually to have done, Od.3. 125-132; 15. 117.

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

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