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[729] σχέτλιαι, ‘hard-hearted maidens, for you never, any one of you, let the thought come into your hearts to rouse me.’ Here οὐδέ, in parataxis, is equivalent in force to “οὐ γάρ”.

ὑμεῖς περ, with emphasis, ‘you, from whom loyalty might reasonably have been expected.’ With ὑμεῖς θέσθε ἑκάστη cp. Il.13. 121“ἀλλ᾽ ἐν φρεσὶ θέσθε ἕκαστος”

“αἰδῶ καὶ νέμεσιν”.

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

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