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[45] εὔξεαι is aor. subjunctive.

ἣ θέμις ἐστί. The old grammarians regarded “ἥ” as an adverb, and gave it the acute accent to distinguish it from “ᾗ” = ‘where.’ They took it as equivalent to “ὡς”, and parallel in form to “δή, νή, πή”, and perhaps “φή”. Cp. Herodian on Il.2. 73“ἣ θέμις ἐστί: τὸ ἥ δασυντέον: οὐ γάρ ἐστι σύνδεσμος, ἀλλ᾽ ἰσοδυναμοῦν τῷ ὥς ἐπίρρημα”. The passages in which it occurs are Il.2. 73; 9. 33, 134, 276; 19. 177; 23. 581; 24. 652; Od.3. 45, 187; 9. 268; 11. 451; 14. 130; 24. 286. The Venetus A. writes always (except in Il.2. 73) “ἡ” without accent; Eustath. always “ᾗ”, which must have represented the “κοινή”. But there can be no doubt that “ἥ” is the relative pronoun, assimilated in gender to its noun, as in the line “ἥμαρτον εἰ καὶ τήνδ᾽ ἁμαρτίαν νέμεις” Soph. Trach.483.A different assimilation shows itself in Il.11. 779“ξείνιά τ᾽ εὖ παρέθηκεν ἅ τε ξείνοις θέμις ἐστί”. In Od.24. 286“ἥ” appears in the same phrase, not as the relative but as the demonstrative, “ἣ [̣ ἡ] γὰρ θέμις ὅς τις ὑπάρξῃ”.

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

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