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[175] τὸ δ᾽ οὐδ᾽. ‘But it not even can good ships travel over.’ This translation is intended to suggest that ἐπί is used rather adverbially than as a preposition. The sentence is thrown by parataxis into a demonstratival form; whereas later Greek would express it by the relative with a direct preposition, “μέγα λαῖτμα ἐφ᾽ ὅ κ.τ.λ.”

νῆες ἐῖσαι. See on Od. 3.11. The contrast here is between good ships properly built and such an one as Odysseus might be able to make for himself.

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

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