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[379] ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὧς … κακότητος, ‘yet I expect, that not even so [i. e. not even though thou reach the shore at last], wilt thou disparage thy misery.’ A threat uttered in sarcastic language; as if Odysseus would not be satisfied with anything short of the extremity of suffering. Cp. sup. 290, and the words of Priam to the Trojans, Il.24. 241“ἦ ὀνόσασθ᾽ ὅτι μοι Κρονίδης Ζεὺς ἄλγἐ ἔδωκεν”; Od.17. 378“ἦ ὄνοσαι ὅτι τοι βίοτον κατέδουσιν ἄνακτος”;

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

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