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[493] ἐκ δ᾽ ἔλασαν. This line involves a prothysteron, as one must needs pass the “αἴθουσα [αὐλῆς”] before reaching the “πρόθυρον”, the exit from the courtyard. For similar prothystera cp. Od.16. 341“λίπε δ᾽ ἕρκεά τε μέγαρόν τε”, and 18. 102 “ὄφρ᾽ ἵκετ᾽ αὐλὴν”

“αἰθούσης τε θύρας”, and 22. 474 “ἐκ δὲ Μελάνθιον ἦγον ἀνὰ πρόθυρόν τε καὶ αὐλήν”. But the insertion of the line here makes a confusion by leaving the subject to “μάστιξεν” wholly uncertain.

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

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