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[246] Friedländer, Phil. 4. 580 foll., would strike out the words from “εὐρυάγυιαν” (246) to “Τρώων πόλιν” (249), because of the confusion introduced if both “οἰκῆι” and “δέκτῃ” are retained; for the notion of “οἰκεύς” is incompatible with that of “δέκτης”, cp. Od.14. 63.Here “δέκτῃ” is the nearer definition of “ἄλλῳ φωτί”—‘another person, i. e. a beggar.’ Some seem to have read “Δέκτῃ” as a proper name; “ὁ κυκλικὸς τὸ Δέκτῃ ὀνοματικῶς ἀκούει” Schol. H. M. Q. T. Cp. Eur. Rhesus, 503, where Odysseus is described, “ἤδη δ᾽ ἀγύρτης πτωχικὴν ἔχων στολὴν”

“εἰσῆλθε πύργους”.

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

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