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[120] ἀμφαδίην, an adverb of fem. accusat. form. Cp. Il.7. 196“σιγῇ ἐφ᾽ ὑμείων . . ἠὲ καὶ ἀμφαδίην”. There is an uncertainty whether the comma should come after “εὐνάζεσθαι” or after “ἀμφαδίην”. The latter seems preferable, as then the words “ἤν τις . . ἀκοίτην” are explanatory of “εὐνάζεσθαι ἀμφαδίην”. Cp. Od.6. 288, where “ἀμφάδιος γάμος” is used of honourable marriage. There is an irony in Calypso's words. The gods wink at the amours of the goddesses, but they will not endure that they should raise a mortal to the honourable position of “ἀκοίτης”. Here ποιήσεται is subjunctive.

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

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