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[42] ἐνώπια. According to Nitzsch, the inner faces, opposite to each other, of a gateway or doorway; here, that of the “αὐλή”, but in Od.22. 21, that of the “μέγαρον”. So the Scholl. “τοὺς ἀντικρὺ τόπους τῆς εἰσόδου”, and more nearly Eustath. p. 722. 7 “τὰ ἐντὸς τῶν θυρῶν”. The epithet παμφανόωντα, applied elsewhere to “τεύχεα, ἔντεα, δούρατα, κυνέη, αἴγλη, φλόξ, λέβης, κάρη”, might be taken to mean that the “ἐνώπια” were plastered smooth, if there were any ground for assuming them to be so. But probably the key is supplied by the Schol. “τοὺς φωτιζομένους ὑφ᾽ ἡλίου τόπους ἢ τῆς σελήνης”. In the dark shadow thrown by the front wall with its colonnades, the open gateway, with the sun shining through it on one side or the other, and reflected from its pavement, would well deserve the epithet. Against one of these walls the chariot was rested atilt.

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

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