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[94] καὶ πατέρων … εἰσίν. The way in which these words are printed in the text (which seems better than the insertion of a full stop at “ἀνάσσω”） shows that they are wholly parenthetical. The reference of the sentence is to be explained by looking forward, as indeed “τάδε” helps to indicate, and not backwards. The point of which “τάδε” is the pronominal description is that his house before the Trojan war was “εὖ μάλα ναιετάων”, etc. That state of things, says Menelaus, is now matter of history; but these witnesses of it still survive. Then ἐπεί explains, and is to be taken as immediately following, “οὔ τοι χαίρων . . ἀνάσσω. μέλλετ̓ ἀκουέμεν”, ‘ye are likely to have heard.’ See on Od. 3.87.

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

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